The treatment for Bell's Palsy, if you catch it early enough, is to give a large dose of steroids (anti-inflammatory type, not anabolic - think cortisone, not tren) to try to reverse the paralysis quicker.
Which doesn't fit as well with the whole viral causative agent model. If it were purely infectious, you'd give early antivirals like we do for shingles, herpes and HIV.
In fact, giving steroids to a viral infection would be counterintuitive because it would suppress the immune response and allow the viral invasion to spread further.
TL; DR - They don't know what's happening or what they are doing when it comes to Bell's Palsy.
The treatment for Bell's Palsy, if you catch it early enough, is to give a large dose of steroids (anti-inflammatory type, not anabolic - think cortisone, not tren) to try to reverse the paralysis quicker.
Which doesn't fit as well with the whole viral causative agent model. If it were purely infectious, you'd give early antivirals like we do for shingles, herpes and HIV.
In fact, giving steroids to a viral infection would be counterintuitive because it would suppress the immune response and allow the viral invasion to spread further.
TL; DR - They don't know what's happening or what they are doing when it comes to Bell's Palsy.