XMRV found in samples dating back to 1984!

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From Hillary 's Op-Ed in today's NYTimes:

" Now, Judy Mikovits, the retrovirus expert at the Whittemore Institute,

in Reno, Nev., who led the recent study, has revisited the cold case. Not

surprisingly, the institute is private, created by the parents of a woman who

suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome. But Dr. Mikovits collaborated with

scientists at the National Cancer Institute and the Cleveland Clinic.

When she began her work on this disease in 2006, Dr. Mikovits, a 22-year veteran

of the National Cancer Institute, knew little about chronic fatigue syndrome.

But she was intrigued that an unusually high number of patients being followed

by a Nevada doctor were suffering rare lymphomas and leukemias; at least one had

died. And she was also impressed that the doctor, Dan , had built an

extraordinary repository of more than 8,000 chronic fatigue syndrome tissue

samples going back as far as 1984.

" My hypothesis was, `This is a retrovirus,' and I was going to use that

repository to find it, " Dr. Mikovits told me.

What she found was live, or replicating, XMRV in both frozen and fresh blood and

plasma, as well as saliva. She has found the virus in samples going back to 1984

and in nearly all the patients who developed cancer. She expects the positivity

rate will be close to 100 percent in the disease. "

A live or replicating retrovirus even in FROZEN samples...

We learn more about this every day, and with each day comes more questions!

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/opinion/21johnson.html?_r=2

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What of making saliva or blood auto nosodes? Would those be beneficial against a

retrovirus? I also have a homeopathic retroviral nosodes.. homeopathy

beneficial??

Thanks,

Robin

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> From Hillary 's Op-Ed in today's NYTimes:

>

> " Now, Judy Mikovits, the retrovirus expert at the Whittemore

Institute, in Reno, Nev., who led the recent study, has revisited the cold case.

Not surprisingly, the institute is private, created by the parents of a woman

who suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome. But Dr. Mikovits collaborated with

scientists at the National Cancer Institute and the Cleveland Clinic.

>

> When she began her work on this disease in 2006, Dr. Mikovits, a 22-year

veteran of the National Cancer Institute, knew little about chronic fatigue

syndrome. But she was intrigued that an unusually high number of patients being

followed by a Nevada doctor were suffering rare lymphomas and leukemias; at

least one had died. And she was also impressed that the doctor, Dan ,

had built an extraordinary repository of more than 8,000 chronic fatigue

syndrome tissue samples going back as far as 1984.

>

> " My hypothesis was, `This is a retrovirus,' and I was going to use that

repository to find it, " Dr. Mikovits told me.

>

> What she found was live, or replicating, XMRV in both frozen and fresh blood

and plasma, as well as saliva. She has found the virus in samples going back to

1984 and in nearly all the patients who developed cancer. She expects the

positivity rate will be close to 100 percent in the disease. "

>

> A live or replicating retrovirus even in FROZEN samples...

>

> We learn more about this every day, and with each day comes more questions!

>

> d.

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> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/opinion/21johnson.html?_r=2

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Hi -- I apologize for not replying/ responding specifically to this POST with an

answer/ comment, but the header caught my eye. You DO know that the HIV virus

was found in a sample by a woman doctor from frozen samples she'd kept from a

young man. Said young man passed away in a GA (think this was where it was)

hospital of a mysterious wasting syndrome. No matter what treatment or test she

administered she was never able to find a cause or treatment. When HIV emefrged

later and people began dropping from (full blown) Aids, she ran tests via the

CDC on some of the tissue and blood samples she had kept frozen. They did prove

to be that same virus.

All I am saying here is that if theere were even OLDER samples from people with

(like) samples they might well get the same result.

Just .. a sort of comment. I lost many friends to that other virus; most prior

to the T cell treatments. This was why I happened to know of this case; used to

read all I could about it.

Thanks--

Jane, the one with the hound,NY, NY

> From Hillary 's Op-Ed in today's NYTimes:

> " Now, Judy Mikovits, the retrovirus expert at the Whittemore >

Institute, in Reno, Nev., who led the recent study, has >revisited the cold

case. Not surprisingly, the institute is private, >created by the parents of a

woman who suffers from chronic fatigue >syndrome. But Dr. Mikovits collaborated

with scientists at the >National Cancer Institute and the Cleveland Clinic.

> When she began her work on this disease in 2006, Dr. Mikovits, a 22->year

veteran of the National Cancer Institute, knew little about >chronic fatigue

syndrome. But she was intrigued that an unusually >high number of patients being

followed by a Nevada doctor were >suffering rare lymphomas and leukemias; at

least one had died. And >she was also impressed that the doctor, Dan ,

had built an >extraordinary repository of more than 8,000 chronic fatigue

syndrome >tissue samples going back as far as 1984.

> " My hypothesis was, `This is a retrovirus,' and I was going to use >that

repository to find it, " Dr. Mikovits told me.

> What she found was live, or replicating, XMRV in both frozen and >fresh blood

and plasma, as well as saliva. She has found the virus >in samples going back to

1984 and in nearly all the patients who >developed cancer. She expects the

positivity rate will be close to >100 percent in the disease. "

> A live or replicating retrovirus even in FROZEN samples...

> We learn more about this every day, and with each day comes more questions!

> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/opinion/21johnson.html?_r=2