judderwocky
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Hopefully they don't have the money to stop this beast. (We have to know, is it involved or not, and if it is, then who.)
I think part of it is just jealousy as ive said before.... Switzer has speant years looking at retroviruses and trying to do what the WPI did... his research shows a passion for trying to link retroviruses with human disease... especially new retroviruses.... i think its the same whenever anybody does something amazing the first time... a lot of people that tried but failed to do it like to punch holes in it ... i mean think about it... this upstart group does it after poking around for a couple of years... they had been doing it for longer and never managed to get those kind of clear results and have them published in that reputable of a journal... it must have irked some people. the original science paper was just so well laid out...
"Bill Switzer, MPH, currently leads his branch in the study of simian retrovirus emergence among people who are exposed to primates during the course of their work and is a well-recognized authority in the field. Switzer joined CDC in 1986 but had been interested in its work since studying public health microbiology as an undergraduate.
He was instrumental in documenting simian foamy virus infection in a natural setting among primate hunters in Cameroon, showing that simian retroviruses are actively crossing to humans. This work was published in Lancet and has received considerable recognition by media and scientific outlets. Switzer said he is proudest of his work in this area along with identification of two other new human retroviruses, HTLV-3 and HTLV-4 (human T-cell lymphotrophic/leukemia virus types 3 and 4), which was published in PNAS in May." -- cdc website
is his page on the CDC... but none of those are associated with the prevalence of CFS... 17 million people worldwide is just huge..