virus passed from parent to child in the DNA

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Note...we are going to be working on a study like this looking at the DNA sequences in our autistic children. I'm betting that lyme works in a similar mechanism, after all, some docs say that everyone has lyme, this would explain it!

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Virus is passed from parent to child in the DNA

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science EditorTue Sep 2, 5:39 PM ET

A virus that causes a universal childhood infection is often passed from parent to child at birth, not in the blood but in the DNA, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

They found that most babies infected with the HHV-6 virus, which causes roseola, had the virus integrated into their chromosomes. Not only that, but either the father or mother also had the virus in the chromosomes, suggesting it was a so-called germline transmission -- passed on in egg or sperm.

"This is really a unique mechanism for congenital infections," said Dr. Caroline Breese Hall, a pediatrician at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York who led the study published in the journal Pediatrics.

Her team is now investigating what this means for the children.

"If you have a chromosome that has got a virus integrated into it, what does it mean? What does it do? Can it activate again? Can it start spewing out virus and cause problems? Can you get an immune response to it?" she said in a telephone interview.

The questions are critical because nearly everybody is infected with HHV-6. It is a herpes virus that causes roseola -- an infection marked by high fever and the usual vague virus symptoms that may include respiratory or stomach problems.

About 20 percent of children also have a characteristic sudden rash that appears just as the fever breaks.

Hall's team studied 250 infants, 85 with HHV-6. Of them, 43 were born with the virus and 42 were infected later.

Most of the babies born with the virus -- a congenital infection -- had the virus in the chromosome. Hall said the assumption had been that the virus somehow crossed the placenta from mother to child, but in 86 percent of cases, it was inherited directly in the genetic material.

Just 14 percent were infected across the placenta.

Tests showed either the mother or the father -- but not both -- also had HHV-6 in the chromosomes.

"Because we know a parent already had the virus in the chromosome, we know that it didn't spontaneously wiggle its way in once the baby got it," Hall said.

There were several spots where the virus integrated into the DNA, but usually right at the end of the chromosome, where a key structure called the telomere is found. Telomeres protect the chromosome and are involved in aging and immune response.

The virus is everywhere in people who inherit it, Hall said. "In your hair, your nails, your skin, your blood, and at very high titers (levels)," she said.

The babies infected this way did not appear ill but Hall wants to follow them as they grow up to see if they develop normally. They all had antibodies to HHV-6, which is evidence of an immune reaction of some sort.

There is no drug licensed to treat HHV-6 infection.

Other viruses are known to integrate into the DNA and pass on from parent to child, but these so-called human endogenous retroviruses have never been known to cause symptoms or activate an immune response.

(Editing by Will Dunham and Mohammad Zargham)

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Tami, classical homeopaths have known this for over 200 years.

Hahnemann discovered miasms when he found that a constitutional remedy

at times would not work because of a miasmatic blockage. Modern

classical homeopaths call miasms from acute diseases acute miasms. You

treat them all with homeopathy based on a symptom picture presented by

the individual.

The downside is that the aggressive vaccine schedule has triggered all

the existing latent miasms (the traditional 3 as well as all the acute

ones including infectious diseases such as lyme), and has immune

suppressed the individual making him susceptible to environmental

pathogens and toxins and has so complicated the symptom picture that

it has become well near impossible to treat.

To reiterate, everyone one of us carries miasms and infections from

generations past, its just that they are triggered and active in some

of us causing chronic disease. Mainstream medicine is very behind the

times and the article seems to smack of one more effort to point the

finger at parents/ individual genetics rather than the vaccines

themselves. I have seen graphs that point the rise in the lyme

epidemic to the rise in the mercury containing shots given to kids (or

did they just begin to graph the rise in lyme then)?

Got to go.

Gayatri

PS: The one thing they seem to have missed is the interaction between

the latent infections and the ones acquired environmentally. I am no

doc but am guessing the ramifications of that would be significant.

Who wins over the individual and gets to keep the territory?

>

> Note...we are going to be working on a study like this looking at

the DNA

> sequences in our autistic children. I'm betting that lyme works in

a similar

> mechanism, after all, some docs say that everyone has lyme, this

would explain

> it!

>

>

>

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> Virus is passed from parent to child in the DNA

>

>

>

> By Maggie Fox, Health and Science EditorTue Sep 2, 5:39 PM ET

>

>

> A virus that causes a universal childhood infection is often passed

from

> parent to child at birth, not in the blood but in the DNA, U.S.

researchers said

> on Tuesday.

> They found that most babies infected with the HHV-6 virus, which

causes

> roseola, had the virus integrated into their chromosomes. Not only

that, but

> either the father or mother also had the virus in the chromosomes,

suggesting it

> was a so-called germline transmission -- passed on in egg or sperm.

> " This is really a unique mechanism for congenital infections, " said

Dr.

> Caroline Breese Hall, a pediatrician at the University of Rochester

Medical

> Center in New York who led the study published in the journal

Pediatrics.

> Her team is now investigating what this means for the children.

> " If you have a chromosome that has got a virus integrated into it,

what does

> it mean? What does it do? Can it activate again? Can it start

spewing out

> virus and cause problems? Can you get an immune response to it? " she

said in a

> telephone interview.

> The questions are critical because nearly everybody is infected

with HHV-6.

> It is a herpes virus that causes roseola -- an infection marked by

high fever

> and the usual vague virus symptoms that may include respiratory or

stomach

> problems.

> About 20 percent of children also have a characteristic sudden rash

that

> appears just as the fever breaks.

> Hall's team studied 250 infants, 85 with HHV-6. Of them, 43 were

born with

> the virus and 42 were infected later.

> Most of the babies born with the virus -- a congenital infection --

had the

> virus in the chromosome. Hall said the assumption had been that the

virus

> somehow crossed the placenta from mother to child, but in 86 percent

of cases,

> it was inherited directly in the genetic material.

> Just 14 percent were infected across the placenta.

> Tests showed either the mother or the father -- but not both --

also had

> HHV-6 in the chromosomes.

> " Because we know a parent already had the virus in the chromosome,

we know

> that it didn't spontaneously wiggle its way in once the baby got

it, " Hall

> said.

> There were several spots where the virus integrated into the DNA, but

> usually right at the end of the chromosome, where a key structure

called the

> telomere is found. Telomeres protect the chromosome and are involved

in aging and

> immune response.

> The virus is everywhere in people who inherit it, Hall said. " In

your hair,

> your nails, your skin, your blood, and at very high titers

(levels), " she

> said.

> The babies infected this way did not appear ill but Hall wants to

follow

> them as they grow up to see if they develop normally. They all had

antibodies to

> HHV-6, which is evidence of an immune reaction of some sort.

> There is no drug licensed to treat HHV-6 infection.

> Other viruses are known to integrate into the DNA and pass on from

parent to

> child, but these so-called human endogenous retroviruses have never

been

> known to cause symptoms or activate an immune response.

> (Editing by Will Dunham and Mohammad Zargham)

>

>

>

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Republication or

> redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without

the prior

> written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any

errors or delays

> in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.

>

>

>

>

> Tami Duncan

>

> President and Co-Founder

> _www.liafoundation.org_ (http://www.liafoundation.org/)

> Read about the Lyme-Autism Connection in the new book by Rosner.

> Purchase online at: _www.liafoundation.org_

(http://www.liafoundation.org/)

>

>

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