gu3vara
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That's going a bit off topic but still I'd like to hear from Gerwyn or anyone knowledgeable on that.
Just for clarification, does that mean that every single cell of the baby will be infected by the herpes virus in this case? If so, sounds like a dead sentence if it's the case, all new cells would be infected as well (???)
I certainly miss some basic concepts here, that's probably not that simple. My understanding is that if XMRV ca be vertically transmitted than it would literally behave as an endogenous virus and each cells would be infected.
What beliefs are you referring to Tina?
I just came across this one recently, interesting as they found HIV integrated in kids' DNA although they were all seronegative - no antibodies to HIV, conclusion that the infection was 'hidden', not active, HIV not replicating...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1524729/?tool=pubmed
An endogenous virus has managed to get completely coded into our DNA, during the course of evolution... this has happened over the course of human evolutionary history...
My understanding is that there are many human endogenous retro-viruses and they are not usually thought to cause any disease, although there is research into endogenous retroviruses to see if there might be retrovirus sequences, or particles, which might be responsible for some diseases.
Hi Bob,
a year ago, I'd read a scientific magazine, reporting that the human genome(DNA) consists of 8% endogenous retrovirus particles. All in all, we're pretty much itself a retrovirus...
OS.
By the way, people are already asking me if this is related to the retroviral sequences we published in 1991. Please don't ask me, history will sort this stuff out; the focus and attention now needs to be upon the current work, mechanics of symptom generation, epidemiology, and treatment implications. The focus needs to be upon the Whittemore-Peterson Institute, and other scientists who will become involved in replicating the material and moving on from there.
Here's that message from Dr. Bell regarding CAV...
He cited, in addition, thirty year old medical papers that pinned recovery speed among mono and influenza victims to "the emotional state of the patient." "If we had been aware of these studies," he said, "some of us might not have tried to reinvent the wheel" by attempting to assign the disease a virological cause...
[Retroviral causation] "doesn't make any sense because ...retroviral infection... includes progressive hematologic, immunologic and neurologic deficits in one mix or another, and those aren't really prominent features of chronic fatigue syndrome."...
[Re: DeFreitas' work] "there's really no good scientific merit to it." He further posited, "There is no current evidence for chronic infection in CFS. Therefore, broad screening of CFS patients for infections is completely unwarranted. Your patients may demand exotic screenings," he added, "but it's only confusing."...
A significant portion of the symptomology of the disease, he commented, was a result of "poor sleep hygiene" and failure to exercise: "Patients exacerbate things because they take multiple naps during the day and break up their rest periods and sleep periods. They stay in bed a lot...
The scientist was roundly applauded, with at least one audience member shouting, "hear, hear!"
[emphasis added]
Sorry if this has already been covered but, do we know if XMRV is different to the Defreitas virus? If so are people able to be tested for that retrovirus and the others that are known to exist in humans? maybe cfs is due to a retrovirus but not always the same one?