Guest guest Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 I have a 9 years old daughter, have been doing DAN with on/off results. I would be interested in protocol. Do you know any dr. doing it in MD, VA, PA? CA is a bit far...Thank you Elieana From: natasa778 <neno@...> Subject: Chronic Fatigue and Prostate Cancer: A Retroviral Connection - more details Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009, 10:06 AM  more details on the story " ...transmission can occur via bodily fluids, including saliva... " if something like this the case in autism, it would explain the clustering of cases amongst staff in that autism school... It would also be easily passed through placenta? - explaining mums with CFS and kids developing ASD after vaccination (immune stressors reactivate retroviruses) Chronic Fatigue and Prostate Cancer: A Retroviral Connection? Sam Kean As if chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) hasn't caused enough brawls, a new study published online by Science (www.sciencemag. org/cgi/content/ abstract/ 1179052 <http://www.sciencem ag.org/cgi/ content/abstract /1179052> ) links the disease to a possibly contagious rodent retrovirus, XMRV, which has also been implicated in an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Related work by the authors also suggests that CFS might best be treated with AIDS drugs. Even the lead author, Judy Mikovits of the Whittemore Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease in Reno, Nevada, says she understands why linking CFS to a retrovirus and to prostate cancer has already drawn skepticism. In 2006, an unrelated paper found an association between XMRV, which originated in mice, and a deadly prostate cancer exacerbated by a deficient enzyme. Mikovits and colleagues had seen the same deficiency in CFS cases. When they investigated further, the team discovered XMRV in the white blood cells of two-thirds of CFS patients but only 4% of control subjects. Intriguingly, Mikovits says XMRV does major damage in natural killer (NK) blood cells, which attack tumor cells and cells infected by viruses, and other studies suggest people with CFS suffer from high rates of cancer. Unpublished work, Mikovits adds, has found blood serum antibodies for XMRV in 95% of CFS patients. [Figure 1] <http://www.sciencem ag.org/cgi/ content/full/ 326/5950/ 215-a/F1> Controversial link. A study of chronic fatigue syndrome points to a retrovirus found in cancerous prostate cells (magnified in inset). CREDIT: ROBERT SCHLABERG AND HARSH THAKER [Larger version of this image] <http://www.sciencem ag.org/cgi/ content/full/ 326/5950/ 215-a/F1> All previous attempts to nail down a cause for CFS—including many links to viral infections—have foundered or been retracted, and many doctors remain doubtful that it's a coherent disease. Mikovits says her work " proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that CFS is a real disease. " But some of her peers find the report of a viral link premature. ph DeRisi, a molecular biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who co-discovered XMRV, was not satisfied with details in the paper: He wanted to know more about the viral load in CFS patients and how the demographics of the control group matched that of CFS patients. And the Mikovits team didn't do enough to rule out contamination, he says. " One has to be very careful about making claims about such a sensitive and emotionally charged issue as CFS, where many claims have been made in the past. " At the least, a double-blind study where a third-party lab searches for XMRV in CFS patients and in controls is vital, he says. Other CFS specialists, including Kerr at St. 's University of London, are convinced that the Mikovits team discovered something important. " The fact that the virus was actually grown from the blood cells of CFS patients strongly suggests some sort of role in the pathogenesis of the disease. " But exactly what they discovered remains unclear, given that the group is not claiming to have identified a cause. Coffin, a molecular biologist at Tufts University in Boston, analyzed the Mikovits paper in a separate " Perspective " also published online by Science (www.sciencemag. org/cgi/content/ abstract/ 1181349 <http://www.sciencem ag.org/cgi/ content/abstract /1181349> ). Coffin was highly skeptical of the paper at first, but the team found enough independent lines of evidence for XMRV to convert him. " They will be celebrating in the clinics where these people [with CFS] are being treated, " he now says. Even if the finding of a link to XMRV holds up, treatment suggestions are bound to attract controversy. No one knows how easily XMRV spreads, although Mikovits says transmission can occur via bodily fluids, including saliva. Mikovits also says unpublished preclinical data hints that scientists can treat XMRV with AIDS drugs such as AZT, although AZT itself might prove too toxic. Kerr remained cautious about this: " With present public knowledge—what is described in this paper—further work would be necessary before antiretroviral drugs could be recommended. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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