George
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The only thing I don't understand about this is why the majority of patients would show gradual onset rather than sudden onset. I know I can give you the exact date that I got "sick" October 5th 2006 at 6:45 a.m., no joke. I never recovered from that moment in time. However, for me each year that I taught I lost a little more ground becoming more and more ill but still able to think at the same levels. After the Oct. 5th my brain never worked the same, energy plummeted to never return. I can check off every category of the CCC criteria.
I've had uncertainty about my onset. There was certainly a "worst flu in my life", but the link to possible infection appears to have come weeks earlier. The general course of illness didn't really become potentially disabling for years. I've been convinced for some time the sudden onset is primarily caused by a co-pathogen which replicates rapidly. XMRV just doesn't seem to behave that way....The only thing I don't understand about this is why the majority of patients would show gradual onset rather than sudden onset. I know I can give you the exact date that I got "sick" October 5th 2006 at 6:45 a.m., no joke. I never recovered from that moment in time. However, for me each year that I taught I lost a little more ground becoming more and more ill but still able to think at the same levels. After the Oct. 5th my brain never worked the same, energy plummeted to never return. I can check off every category of the CCC criteria...
The volcano put a hold on the results of the UK study.
Sorry, which test's do you mean?
In a very subtle way the WPI may be helping to remove decades of misinformation and provide quality information to new researchers coming into the ME/CFS/XMRV arena... Dr. Mikovits is certainly doing her part to give an honest account of what ME/CFS really is and I find this pretty wonderful.
"HIV and HTLV-1 retrovirus infections are detected clinically by:
Serological detection of antibodies to viral proteins in blood
Detection of viral proteins by immunoblot
Detection of proviral DNA by PCR of DNA or detection of virus RNA by reverse transcription -PCR
Isolation of virus from cell culture
In our initial publication in Science [23] and follow-up papers [24,25], we demonstrated that each of these detection methods could be used to detect XMRV in the blood of infected individuals [21]. "