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Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis

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Maja Seithe

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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the protective myelin sheath surrounding nerve fibers.