thank you for posting this! I am actually on Mercola's mailing list and read this the other day, I forwarded the info to my friend. I gotta think MS was one of the potential diagnoses for her given her neurologic symptoms, but maybe they need to re-visit that. The eye doctor I used to work for told me once that MS was particularly common along the Ohio River Valley... I don't know where he got that information, read it somewhere in his literature I guess, but it's interesting to speculate whether that's a result of some environmental toxin, contaminant, contagion, or genetic, assuming families stay in the area. Weird. My aunt had MS, interestingly. Spent most of her life nearby.