News from WPI symposium: Name change to be proposed for XMRV

[Guest guest]

Hi, all.

I just received the following message from Dr. Joe Burrascano. I checked with

him, and he responded that this information can be made public. I don't have any

additional information about this, so won't be able to answer questions, but it

sounds like a major development, and I think people here will want to know about

it.

Best regards,

Rich

Hello all from Dr. B.

I just returned from the first official scientific symposium of the

Whittemore- Institute on the topic of XMRV.

We formed a working group to be in constant touch and we plan to meet regularly

because advances are coming so rapidly.

Big news that everyone should know and adopt is that we have proposed a name

change for the virus.

This virus is a human, not mouse virus, and it is the first and so far only

gamma-retrovirus known to infect people. Also, it is clearly not an " endogenous "

retrovirus (one that is present in all genomes due to ancient infection).

Because of all of this, and because of the desire to begin on the right track,

the new name of the virus is HGRV- Human Gamma Retro Virus. The illness caused

by this infection is named HGRAD- Human Gamma Retrovirus Associated Disease.

We plan to announce this at the upcoming NIH retroviral conference this

September.

Definitely stay tuned- the volume of new and important information about this

virus and its disease associations is increasing rapidly and in my opinion

should be a concern to every patient with chronic neuro-immune diseases,

including those with chronic Lyme.

ph J. Burrascano Jr. M.D.

Water Mill, NY, USA