M Levac thanks for the link to MS as a chronic infection. I have a number of family members affected by MS and I have to look into this further. Physicians are funny in their beliefs about certain diseases. They are very quick to label something as quackery even if it seems pretty plausible at first glance. Physicians who treat people with chronic fatigue syndrome with antibiotics are castigated by their peers, and even physicians who treat patients who are known to have Lyme Disease with long term antibiotics are frowned upon. MS has such a weird and variable natural history that accepting the standard autoimmune theory as sacrosanct seems just as foolish.