"For over 50 years, the public has been inundated with incomplete and misleading information about the nature of MS, its origins, and potential treatments. The "MS industry" has been touting either the infectious (bacterial or viral) or immunological etiology of the disease along with EAE as the paradigm of the animal model. One of the prominent features of the MS lesion is the involvement of the cerebral vasculature; the lesion is primarily perivenule. Thus, concepts pertaining to the etiology of MS perhaps should focus on this vascular relationship."
Dr. Sheldon F. Gottlieb in The Scientist 1999
http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/news/Sep2000/MisguidedMSResearch.html