Hi Christina,

The appearance and strength of a disease in a geographic area is an interesting thing to consider homeopathically. Carolyn Myss is a medical intuitive who has talked extensively about pandemic occurences. Because she "sees" disease in a person and can recognize the emotional/energetic source of the disease she relates that in a pandemic situation as something that affects a large part of the population on an energetic level and then produces disease. An example she once gave was in Israel after a lengthy and bloody period when their leader called for a cease fire. I can't remember the exact year of this, but the interesting thing that she brought up was that it was a VERY unpopular decision with the people, especially men, of Israel and within a short period of time they had something like a 70% increase in prostate cancer.

If there is not an environmental factor that is so severe that even industry can't deny it then it is easy to see the cause and remove it. But homeopathically we look at the susceptibility being from a deeper level, and in an area that has people who have lived together under similar influences over generations it becomes quite fascinating. For instance, the high percentage of Nat Murs in the U.K., where mothers bind their babies in a blanket and set them into the carriage or crib as opposed to a culture who slings the baby over their back and carry them about everywhere they go. The likelihood of finding a Nat Mur in that culture is much lower.

Here is one that I've been looking for clues about for several weeks: Why is there a resurgence of TB and why does it thrive in native cultures who have a tribal tradition?

As for MS in particular, I recall that in the US there was and maybe still is, a focus on the cause being viral and an area between Idaho and Wyoming being more likely to produce MS in people who lived there as young children. In the end it is susceptibility and treating all of one's symptoms without suppression (including knocking fever down with aspirin, etc., stopping diarrhea artificially, drying up mucous membrane with antihistimine....) is the way to maintain and restore health.

Well, I didn't mean to ramble on so, but this is a topic that can go on and on and in many directions!
Take care, Kathy