MS may be *casually* non-communicable

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I forgot to note that these data dont address sexual contact in any

way, only casual contact.

> if the data in PMID 8656905 are good.

>

> First of all, if you have an identical twin with the disease your

risk

> factor is 300x vs 30x if you have another sort of first degree

> relative with it. This suggets genes are quite heavy determinants.

>

> Second, " there were no significant differences in risk [...] for

half-

> siblings raised together versus those raised apart from the index

case

> (1.17 percent vs 1.47 percent). "

>

> Of course, this only bears on whether the disease is communicable...

> if asymptomatic infection were quite common, the presumed organism

> still could be communicable consistent with these data, but in that

> case it might not matter much.