_http://www.cfscentral.com/2010/08/fdanihharvard-xmrv-study-same-thing.html#links
"The just-released study detects variants of the retrovirus XMRV in most CFS patients. In addition, nearly 7 percent of the healthy U.S. controls—all of whom are blood donors—test positive, signaling the contamination of the U.S. blood supply. By Mindy Kitei "
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"The paper, "Detection of MLV-related virus gene sequences in blood of patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and healthy controls," was published today. In it, the authors state that their conclusions “clearly support” the October 2009 Science paper linking a retrovirus to the neuroimmune disease Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)..."
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"Alter said he’ll look at other cohorts of CFS patients as well as patients with other diseases, including hepatitis C, HIV, fibromyalgia and autoimmune diseases to see if they harbor these MLVs. He’ll also be examining larger populations of blood donors to determine if the MLVs are transmitted by blood."
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Anyways, if you guys decide that a link and a summary of this article is worth puting on the SOTT health section, check out what it says above...too bad she has these rules. I used the following word count tool to abide by her copyright rules in posting this, or so I hope I have: _http://www.wordcounttool.com/
"The just-released study detects variants of the retrovirus XMRV in most CFS patients. In addition, nearly 7 percent of the healthy U.S. controls—all of whom are blood donors—test positive, signaling the contamination of the U.S. blood supply. By Mindy Kitei "
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"The paper, "Detection of MLV-related virus gene sequences in blood of patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and healthy controls," was published today. In it, the authors state that their conclusions “clearly support” the October 2009 Science paper linking a retrovirus to the neuroimmune disease Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)..."
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"Alter said he’ll look at other cohorts of CFS patients as well as patients with other diseases, including hepatitis C, HIV, fibromyalgia and autoimmune diseases to see if they harbor these MLVs. He’ll also be examining larger populations of blood donors to determine if the MLVs are transmitted by blood."
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"This article and sidebar, below, are copyright CFS Central 2010. All Rights Reserved. You may quote up to 150 words from this article as long as you indicate in the body of your post (as opposed to a footnote or an endnote) that the excerpt is by Mindy Kitei for CFS Central. You may not reprint more than 150 words from this article on blogs, forums, websites or any other online or print venue. Instead, refer readers to this blog to read the article."
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Anyways, if you guys decide that a link and a summary of this article is worth puting on the SOTT health section, check out what it says above...too bad she has these rules. I used the following word count tool to abide by her copyright rules in posting this, or so I hope I have: _http://www.wordcounttool.com/
