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Eric Hovde: “Most of the focus was on relapsing, remitting, because that…”

Featuring: Eric Hovde, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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Eric Hovde 6 19 2026

Published | Video Starts at 18:27

Well, we don't have a cure now. It is more complicated because the more they've studied ms, they know progressive Ms. Is different … Most of the focus was on relapsing, remitting, because that was 30% and it was a bigger population base. … which it's not a genetic disease, but there's probably a genetic predisposition. But we both had Epstein Barr virus. My other siblings didn't. (18:27–18:33)

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Asserts that research focus was on relapsing-remitting MS due to its prevalence in 30% of cases.

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