Multiple Sclerosis support group. HHV-6 is the bug which brings on chicken pox and cold sores. It is thought HHV-6 is dormant in the body and then is reactivated.
Additional testing is underway.
Rebif, a betaseron 1-a, is similar to avonex. A Phase I trial showed the peptide is safe. University researchers determined that the immune system focuses on a specific region of myelin. The peptide contains this small segment and, when administered in the first trial, reduced the level of anti-myelin. Briano Bio-Tech of Edmonton is funding the second trial in exchange for world rights to license resulting technologies.