Mono, or the Epstein-Barr virus, is sometimes thought of as the MS virus to people. There is no actual Multiple Sclerosis virus, per say, yet researchers have found that quite a large percentage of MS patients had mono at some point in their life. It has yet to be proven that the Epstein-Barr virus actually causes MS, but it is thought to play a role in raising the risk of being diagnosed with MS.

Mono is known as the ‘kissing disease’, since it is often transferred from one person to another via saliva. It’s difficult to know exactly when it was contracted, due to the lengthy incubation period; an average of 25 days. Symptoms commonly shown include; sore throat, fever, and swollen lymph nodes in the neck. Most people feel extremely tired while they are infected and sometimes up to quite a few months after the symptoms have subsided. …