XMRV: Study Shows Virus Can Cause ‘Persistent Infection’ in Monkeys - Health Blog - WSJ

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The debate over what XMRV may do to humans continues. But at least in a

small group of monkeys, one thing is clear, according to a new study.

“The virus causes chronic, persistent infection,” says Silverman

of the Cleveland Clinic, a co-author of the paper, which was published

online yesterday in the Journal of Virology

<http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/JVI.02411-10v1>.

Moreover, the new research suggests that in these monkeys, at least, the

virus can be difficult to detect in blood, even though it’s taken root

in the body...