oerganix
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Mark and the 6%
Mark, you said:
"3. The thing that intrigues me most is that the details of the controls suggest something else as well. Suppose, hypothetically, that these two studies are both fairly accurate results within a few fractions of a percentage. In that case:
- about 3.75% of healthy controls have XMRV
- about 6% of noncancerous controls have XMRV
The difference between these two groups is around 2%. That suggests that the percentage of the population who are non-cancerous but not healthy and infected with XMRV is roughly 2%."
Please take into consideration that the 6% "noncancerous controls" were all men and the "3.75% healthy controls" were both male and female.
One of the reasons that more women than men have ME/CFS is probably that women's immune systems are different from men's, in that their bodies have to tolerate "foreign" DNA in order to perpetuate the human race, that is, to be pregnant and stay pregnant for the necessary time to reproduce.
For instance, women who have been impregnated by a man with an incompatible Rh factor develope antibodies to any future pregnancy which results in spontaneous abortion, miscarriage or stillbirth, due to hemolitic problems with the fetus. An Rh factor vaccine has been developed to avoid this problem with subsequent pregnancies. This vaccine is routinely give to women who have abortions of first-time pregnancies so that they may have normal pregnancies in the future.
Mark, you said:
"3. The thing that intrigues me most is that the details of the controls suggest something else as well. Suppose, hypothetically, that these two studies are both fairly accurate results within a few fractions of a percentage. In that case:
- about 3.75% of healthy controls have XMRV
- about 6% of noncancerous controls have XMRV
The difference between these two groups is around 2%. That suggests that the percentage of the population who are non-cancerous but not healthy and infected with XMRV is roughly 2%."
Please take into consideration that the 6% "noncancerous controls" were all men and the "3.75% healthy controls" were both male and female.
One of the reasons that more women than men have ME/CFS is probably that women's immune systems are different from men's, in that their bodies have to tolerate "foreign" DNA in order to perpetuate the human race, that is, to be pregnant and stay pregnant for the necessary time to reproduce.
For instance, women who have been impregnated by a man with an incompatible Rh factor develope antibodies to any future pregnancy which results in spontaneous abortion, miscarriage or stillbirth, due to hemolitic problems with the fetus. An Rh factor vaccine has been developed to avoid this problem with subsequent pregnancies. This vaccine is routinely give to women who have abortions of first-time pregnancies so that they may have normal pregnancies in the future.