halcyon
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@Ben H @Janet Dafoe (Rose49)Ron: Well for example we have 20 patients and we were looking for evidence of a viral infection and we were looking for virus particles in the blood. We didn’t find any that were pathogenic viruses. I was a little surprised at that. So many patients say they have hhv-6 or hhv-7 active infections. No, we couldn’t find any evidence of that. We looked for DNA in the blood which means it will come from any site. A lot of people say that doesn’t mean anything. Maybe it is not in the blood but if there is an infection anywhere in the body it is now in the blood. As one of our advisors Ron Thompkins says that blood is the sewer of the body. Everything gets dumped in there. It (the body) has to dump it in the blood to get rid of it. It doesn’t just stay in the body. It cleans out everything, so...
The bulk of the evidence from the literature and epidemiological data over the last 83 years points to enterovirus as the cause, not herpes viruses.
1) Were enteroviruses looked for in this study? If yes, what methodology was used?
2) How were the samples collected, stored, and processed for this study? Was the blood drawn immediately into an RNA preservative to protect fragile viral RNA from RNase activity in the blood sample?
3) What blood fractions were tested in this study? Serum/plasma only or was buffy coat also included?
Yes, the blood is a sewer, but it's not benign. Viral genomic material will be subject to enzymatic degradation and phagocytosis by leukocytes. If you really care to track this down, look towards the past evidence. Enterovirus antigen (VP1) has been found in the blood of ME patients repeatably.