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Dr Vincent Racaniello, the Columbia professor who does the Virology Blog, has done another piece about XMRV, as a guest on someone else's podcast. I was struck by his obvious enthusiasm for the research - he really thinks this is huge, and that a treatment is in the near future.
(the XMRV section begins about 30 minutes in):
http://www.virology.ws/2009/12/09/futures-in-biotech-50-more-biotech-stories/
Highlights of the discussion:
"Chronic Fatigue of course is a very serious debilitating disease characterized by immune activation, persistent fatigue, and possibly several percent of the world's population affected by it
It could be that 3-4% of the world's population have this virus, and who knows what kind of disease it's going to cause
Maybe relatively recently, maybe in the last 50 years, who knows, the virus went form a mouse to a human and it started replicating in the human and spreading from human to human
We have never tested blood for this virus, because we didn't know about it, and it's possible that 4% of the blood supply of the world is contaminated with this
That's like a home run. A scientific home run
It's almost like overnight there's a potential cure [for CFS]"
http://www.virology.ws/2009/12/09/futures-in-biotech-50-more-biotech-stories/
Highlights of the discussion:
"Chronic Fatigue of course is a very serious debilitating disease characterized by immune activation, persistent fatigue, and possibly several percent of the world's population affected by it
It could be that 3-4% of the world's population have this virus, and who knows what kind of disease it's going to cause
Maybe relatively recently, maybe in the last 50 years, who knows, the virus went form a mouse to a human and it started replicating in the human and spreading from human to human
We have never tested blood for this virus, because we didn't know about it, and it's possible that 4% of the blood supply of the world is contaminated with this
That's like a home run. A scientific home run
It's almost like overnight there's a potential cure [for CFS]"