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    The Insanity Virus - HERV-W in MS and schizophrenia

    Great article! very interessting. "Scribbled onto the marker board in Yolkens office is a list of infections that are now known to awaken HERV-Wincluding herpes, toxoplasma, cytomegalovirus, and a dozen others." MS has been linked to EBV in a few papers, but the evidence is not yet convincing...
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    Multiple Sources of Contamination in Samples from Patients Reported to Have XMRV..

    This was posted on ERV: http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2011/11/xmrv_and_chronic_fatigue_syndr_30.php#comment-5915108 http://antiviralresistance.org/abstract26_2011.pdf -- So if I get it right, Coffin and his group discovered that Lombardi et al. suffered from two types of contamination...
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    EBV in bone marrow of rheumatoid arthritis patients predicts response to Rituximab

    Thanks for posting this! I've always wondered if EBV plays a role in the pathogenesis of CFS. Interesting article.
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    Ruscetti Acknowledges Reuse of WB Image

    Then I wonder, if they thought it wasn't important to mention, then why did they even use it? And why only on some samples?
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    XMRV is dead, but what about the antibodies?

    Don't quote me on this one, but I believe the antibodies discovered by Lombardi et al. were against SFFV virus envelop and not specifically for XMRV or HGRVs in general. So a lot of mouse viruses (or contamination by mouse viruses) are candidates to explain these findings. Maybe another...