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title: Idiopathic
date: 2024-06-26T21:00:37Z
modified: 2025-01-07T17:05:26Z
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author: Elizabeth
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A disease of unknown origin.

Multiple sclerosis is thought to be an idiopathic disease, meaning that we don’t know why some people come down with it.