“…Thus, in the last decades, it has been hypothesized that an environmental factor may be involved in the disease, triggering autoimmune attack against nerve cells in genetically susceptible individuals [5]. Recently, several articles [5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25]have reported that human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6), a highly prevalent virus in human population, could be this agent; two variants of HHV-6 (HHV-6A and HHV-6B) have been identified, but only the HHV-6A variant, a neurotropic virus, has been suggested to have a pathogenic role in MS, and specifically, in exacerbations [8, 17, 22]. …”