[CITATION][C] The year of the dog
G Lin - 2008 - Hachette UK
The year of the dog
M Alter, M Berman, E Kahana - Neurology, 1979 - AAN Enterprises
For those interested in multiple sclerosis (MS), 1977 could have been called “The Year of
the Dog” because several articles puldished during that year reported an a. ssociation
between exposure to dogs (especially s. mal1 household dogs) and MS. Initially, the
evidence was presented modestly enough. Chan,'in a letter to the editor of Lancet,
suggested that Mi3 was caused by a canine virus “transmitted among dogs via urine.” He
assumed that the virus was inactivated by exposure to sunlight, accounting for the relative …
the Dog” because several articles puldished during that year reported an a. ssociation
between exposure to dogs (especially s. mal1 household dogs) and MS. Initially, the
evidence was presented modestly enough. Chan,'in a letter to the editor of Lancet,
suggested that Mi3 was caused by a canine virus “transmitted among dogs via urine.” He
assumed that the virus was inactivated by exposure to sunlight, accounting for the relative …