Guest guest Posted March 9, 1999 Report Share Posted March 9, 1999 The Newsday article was approximately 2,000 words and covered Dr. Bastion's spiroplasma theory and Dr. idis virus theory along with the prion theory. Talan, neuroscience reporter, said that Dr. L. idis suspects a small virus may cause the so-called " sporadic " form of the disease. She recently found that anti-inflammatory agents slowed progression of the disease in animals infected with CJD from human tissue. The fact that anti- inflammatory drugs seem to work, she said, means the immune system is triggering an inflammatory process in response to the infection. However, a specific virus has yet to be found........................Pat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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