What if Autism and Chronic Fatique are the result of a retro-virus HMRV?

[Guest guest]

Listmates,

I think we should all let the committee know about Dr. G and what he has

done to help our kids. Here is what I sent. Here is Ms. email. She

is the point of contact IACCPublicInquiries@...

Now let them hear our voices that we want answers for our kids

Marcia

Office of Autism Research Coordination---National Institute of Mental

Health, NIH

Dear Ms. ,

I hope the committee is aware of the latest study published by the

Whittemore Institute and Dr. Judy Mikovits. Here are links that

show the discussion by Dr. Mikovits and Annette Whittemore founder of the

Whittemore Institute.latest research concerning the XMRV virus and Autism.

This is a new medical discovery that has tremendous ramifications for people

with chronic fatigue, autism, ADHD, other autoimmune diseases and even

cancer. This is so exciting that what Dr. Goldberg of Tarzana, Ca

has been talking about and treating for years. These ideas are finally

being recognized by the medical community. I hope recovery for all children

with autism and everyone with autoimmune disease is on the way.

Marcia Hinds

805 497-8202

HMRV Retro-virus and Autism

Dr Goldberg of Tarzana. California has successfully been treating

children with Autism for years. He has long stated the obvious namely that

you cannot have a developmental/genetic epidemic. (

<http://www.nids.net/pdf/myth.pdf> http://www.nids.net/pdf/myth.pdf) and the

latest study by the Whittemore Institute findings support his hypothesis.

This study describes the detection of a retro-virus called XMRV (xenotropic

MLV related virus) in about two-thirds of patients diagnosed with chronic

fatigue syndrome (CFS). Many of those diagnosed with " Autism " have blood

work that contains these same viruses.

<http://www.neuroimmunedr.com/> Dr. J. Goldberg, MD

www.neuroimmunedr.com

5620 Wilbur Ave

Tarzana, CA 91356-1351

(818) 343-1010

Here is a video link that features Annette Whittemore, president and founder

of the Whittemore Institute and Dr. Judy Mikovits... and they

discuss the autism/ immune link as it relates to the latest study of XMRV

published in the SCIENCE journal.

Part one....

and part two...

more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vISWCI-13M

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vISWCI-13M & feature=related>

& feature=related

XMRV and Autism

Particles of the retrovirus, XMRV, in human blood and demonstrate that it

is transmitted between blood cells. XMRV was first discovered in prostate

cancer tissue of men with certain genetic defects. It has also been found in

patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS).

Like the more well-known retrovirus, HIV, this pathogen is blood-borne, and

not transmitted through the air. The findings have potential significance

for a number of other disorders including, it turns out, autism. Researchers

tested blood samples from a " small group of children " with autism and found

that 40% of them were positive for XMRV, according to a statement from the

Nevada Commission on Autism Spectrum Disorders. More testing is underway

which, the Commission said, " could dramatically increase that 40% positive

finding. " (Given the small sample size, such a statement is purely

speculative).

As Dr. Mikovits explained to a _television news program_ (

<http://nevadanewsmakers.com/> http://nevadanewsmakers.com/) in Nevada,

It is not in the paper and not reported, but we have actually done some of

these studies (in ASD children) and found the virus in a significant number

of samples that we have tested for. It could be linked to a number of

neuro-immune diseases, including autism. It certainly won't be all, because

there are genetic defects that result in autism. But there are also the

environmental effects; there is always the hypothesis

that, 'My child was fine and then they got sick, and then they got autism.' "

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. "

So there you have it - a possible explanation of regressive autism in a

significant number of cases associated with immune system deregulation

triggered by vaccination. Of course, much more work is needed to nail down

the exact significance of such an association. For example, is the virus

implicated in the cause of autism, or do children harbor the virus as a

result of autism? Either way, it is notable that such questions are being

asked by mainstream sources such as the University of Nevada and by

extension the NCI and the Cleveland Clinic: Can XMRV infection plus

vaccination create the right conditions for regressive autism? That remains

to be seen. But it also means that the thousands of parents who claim their

children did regress shortly after vaccination may not be so crazy and

" fringe " as they have been

portrayed by experts such as Dr. Offit of Children's Hospital of

Philadelphia and Dr. Insel, head of the National Institute of Mental

Health and Chair of the federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee

(IACC). " We certainly are advocating vaccinations and how important those

are to the well being of the children, " explained Annette Whittemore,

founder of the Whittemore Institute.

" But what we are hoping for is, by finding out whether or not one is

positive to XMRV, whether it is in one family member or another, and then

looking for it in children, you could alter the immune response in such a

way that you can protect the child and still be able to vaccinate and avoid

autism in these kids. And again, I don't think ether one of us is sitting

here saying, 'Vaccinations cause autism,' but rather a number of factors; a

genetic susceptibility to the illness, to the infection itself, and then on

top of that you are adding something to that mix that takes that child over

the top. "

Apparently, the CFS findings have impressed the scientific community. " We

presented these data three times: Twice at closed conferences at the NIH,

and one at an international meeting a few weeks ago, and you could hear a

pin drop in the audience - it's amazement " Mikovits said. " The scientists

are excited, everyone is working on it, so we know we are going to get a lot

of help. It's just amazement, it's an entirely new field of medicine and

everyone who's ever worked in this family of viruses is, now that we've

shown it's a human pathogen, is extremely excited. " Whittemore added that

researchers hoped to develop a vaccine against XMRV quickly, noting that " It

would be easier to find a vaccine against this than

HIV, because it is a simple retrovirus. " The discovery raises more questions

than it answers. What, exactly, is it about immunization that might switch

on XMRV viral expression? Could the

> effect of heavy metals upon cytokine balances be at play?

Where did this retrovirus come from, and how did it apparently become so

prevalent in children with autism? Did these children inherit the virus from

a parent, or was there some other unexplained route of transmission? Why has

the NIH said nothing about XMRV in association with autism, and did Dr.

Insel know about these findings without sharing them with the IACC?

Finally, Dr. Insel has said that a vaccine against autism may one day be

developed. Was he actually referring to a vaccine against XMRV, and what

role, if any, might he or _members of his family_ (

<http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/08/when-vaccine-development-is-family-busin

ess-thomas-insels-conflicted-r>

http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/08/when-vaccine-development-is-family-busine

ss-thomas-insels-conflicted-role-on-vaccines-and-autism.html) play in the

development of such a vaccine?

According to Insel's _own biography_ (

<http://www.med.umich.edu/depression/bio/insel_bio.htm>

http://www.med.umich.edu/depression/bio/insel_bio.htm) , in 1994, he went to

Emory University, Atlanta as a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry,

and Director of the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center. " As director of

Yerkes, " his bio says, " Dr. Insel

built one of the nation's leading HIV vaccine research programs. "