Fw: XMRV & possible Autism link - you'll want to read this

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From: Haley <myhaze@...>

Subject: XMRV & possible Autism link - you'll want to read this

" a Townsend " <kmtown2003@...>, " Sherry " <wiedb@...>

Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 4:53 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/is-autism-associated-with_b_316986.htm\

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According to Dr. Mikovits, XMRV (which admittedly sounds like a satellite radio

system for your Winnebago) can lie dormant in people, until it is " turned on or

off " by other factors, such as stress hormones like cortisol, or in response to

the presence of inflammatory " cytokines, " protein molecules secreted by immune

cells to help regulate the immune system.

 

And then Dr. Mikovits dropped a bombshell that is sure to spark controversy.

 

" On that note, if I might speculate a little bit, " she said, " This might even

explain why vaccines would lead to autism in some children, because these

viruses live and divide and grow in lymphocytes -- the immune response cells,

the B and the T cells. So when you give a vaccine, you send your B and T cells

in your immune system into overdrive. That's its job. Well, if you are harboring

one virus, and you replicate it a whole bunch, you've now broken the balance

between the immune response and the virus. So you have had the underlying virus,

and then amplified it with that vaccine, and then set off the disease, such that

your immune system could no longer control other infections, and created an

immune deficiency. "

Read more at:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/is-autism-associated-with_b_316986.htm\

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~Haley