Study: Foodborne Bacteria Could Trigger Multiple Sclerosis

From Ring of Fire:

Researchers from the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York have found that a common strain of foodborne bacteria found on raw meat and poultry may be involved with the development of multiple sclerosis (MS).

It was discovered that certain strains of the Clostridium perfringens (C. perfringens) bacteria produces a toxin that affects the same type of cells in the body that multiple sclerosis targets, announced the team at a recent American Society of Microbiology’s 2014 ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting.

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