answersLogoWhite

0

Is ms contagious

Updated: 9/6/2023
User Avatar

Wiki User

15y ago

Best Answer

It is proposed that multiple sclerosis may be transmitted chiefly by sexual contact. Arguments favoring this include: migration studies that suggest a transmissible agent in adolescence; clusters of multiple sclerosis which have occurred in low prevalence areas following entry of young males; the similarity of multiple sclerosis to tropical spastic paraplegia, a known sexually transmitted infection with resemblance to primary progressive multiple sclerosis; an increased rate in drug misusers; a similar age of onset and sex pattern to that found in sexually transmitted disease; increased incidence of multiple sclerosis in those using oral contraceptives; low multiple sclerosis rates in societies with a strict moral code; longitudinal shifts in sex prevalence that show an increase in women after the sexual revolution of the 1960s; and important exceptions to the worldwide distribution corresponding to countries with permissive attitudes to sex. Family, conjugal pair, twin, and adoption studies are compatible with an infectious cause of multiple sclerosis if this is sexually transmitted. It is not proposed that sexual transmission is the only cause but that inherited factors create a susceptibility to a sexually transmitted neurotropic agent. It is hoped this hypothesis might encourage a new direction of neurological research.

User Avatar

Wiki User

10y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar
More answers
User Avatar

Wiki User

12y ago

Multiple Sclerosis is contagious, however, not very, and no one knows the mechanism. You can share the house with someone that has it and not get it.

This answer is:
User Avatar

User Avatar

Wiki User

15y ago

no.

This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: Is ms contagious
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Related questions

Is Multiple Sclerosis contagious?

I would definitely say its not contagious i personally have ms and nobody else in my family or even friends have it and i have never passed it to them


How do you catch multiple Sclerosis?

No. Its not known what causes MS. We don't know what starts it up or how to tell who will develop it. But we do know that it is not contagious. Its believed that MS has and environmental component as well as a genetic component. There still is no cure for MS but great strides have been made in treating it and making life bearable for those of us living with it. Having MS does not mean what it used to.


Can you get multiple sclerosis in an accident?

While we still don't know exactly what causes MS, we do know that it is not contagious. You need to have a predisposition to getting it, along with some other environmental factors and an as-of-yet unidentified infectious trigger. Therefore, no, you cannot get MS in an accident.


What is a sentence for the word contagious?

This is not a contagious disease.The virus is contagious.


Is Stroke contagious?

No, it is not contagious.


Are there contagious and non contagious colds?

No, all cold viruses are contagious.


What is the comparative and superlative form for the word contagious?

more contagious, most contagious


Is a 99.5 temperature contagious?

no it is not contagious


What does communicable or noncommunicable?

contagious or not contagious


Is chikungunya contagious?

It is not a contagious disease.


Is seborrea contagious?

Is seborrea contagious?


Is Boils contagious?

Boils are not contagious