Bob
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I've just come across this info on the National CFIDS Foundation website, from 2006, about the discovery of an RNA virus, 'Cryptovirus', which was found in 96% of CFS/ME patients tested:
http://www.ncf-net.org/library/PressRelease0606.htm
The article says that Dr Robbins discovered the virus (or antibodies to the virus) (in 2006?).
It says that he tested 56 blood samples from patients with CFS/ME and found 96% of the samples tested positive for 'Cryptovirus specific antibodies'.
He also found the same Cryptovirus antibodies in 90% of Multiple Sclerosis patients tested.
I'm bewildered that I've never come across this research before, and that it seems to have disappeared off the radar after this press release.
Does anyone know any more about this Cryptovirus discovery or why the research seems to have gone silent?
Reference:
http://www.ncf-net.org/library/PressRelease0606.htm
http://www.ncf-net.org/library/PressRelease0606.htm
Dr. Steven J. Robbins, virologist and Chief Executive Officer of Cryptic Afflictions, LLC has discovered a major neuropathogen identified as an RNA virus designated as Cryptovirus. Substantial clinical and molecular evidence indicates that this virus is involved in the development of neurological disorders that include Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), also known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) by the World Health Organization, Multiple Sclerosis (M.S.) and Idiopathic Epilepsy of unknown cause.
The article says that Dr Robbins discovered the virus (or antibodies to the virus) (in 2006?).
It says that he tested 56 blood samples from patients with CFS/ME and found 96% of the samples tested positive for 'Cryptovirus specific antibodies'.
He also found the same Cryptovirus antibodies in 90% of Multiple Sclerosis patients tested.
I'm bewildered that I've never come across this research before, and that it seems to have disappeared off the radar after this press release.
Does anyone know any more about this Cryptovirus discovery or why the research seems to have gone silent?
Reference:
http://www.ncf-net.org/library/PressRelease0606.htm
Dr. Steven J. Robbins, virologist and Chief Executive Officer of Cryptic Afflictions, LLC has discovered a major neuropathogen identified as an RNA virus designated as Cryptovirus. Substantial clinical and molecular evidence indicates that this virus is involved in the development of neurological disorders that include Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), also known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) by the World Health Organization, Multiple Sclerosis (M.S.) and Idiopathic Epilepsy of unknown cause.
It was during this phase of our own research that we actually learned of Dr. Steven Robbins' discovery of Cryptovirus specific antibody reactivity in patients with CFS." Dr. Robbins had tested fifty-six serum specimens from patients who had been diagnosed with CFS along with eleven matching cerebrospinal fluid samples obtained from physicians in Brisbane and Southeast Queensland. Dr. Robbins had determined that 96% of the blood samples and 91% of the spinal fluid samples tested positively for Cryptovirus specific antibodies in these CFS patients.
According to the company, "This previously undetected virus appears to be of significant importance to researchers looking for a cure to Multiple Sclerosis and many other neurological illnesses. Antibodies to the newly discovered virus were found in the cerebrospinal fluid and blood of over 90% of the patients tested with Multiple Sclerosis. It is believed that this newly discovered virus may prove to be responsible for a host of neurological disorders. Tests are currently being prepared for tissue samples of lesions within the brains of patients with Multiple Sclerosis. This will be the final round of tests before approaching the FDA for approval of the diagnostic tests."