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But the university required she be current on her measles, mumps and rubella vaccinations.
Great article, thanks for posting.
Three months before I got sick I had an MMR vaccine as well, and a series of hepatitis B vaccines (2 before, 1 after). I didn't think they are what caused it, but haven't discounted the possibility.
Seems to me that there's more going on here than just XMRV...possibly many other factors involved, depending on one's history...
What about the story makes you suspect something more than xmrv? Isn't the current hypothesis that a big immune response to something opens the door for xmrv to wake up (and then there's a cascade of secondary, tertiary, etc. infections)?