XMRV Researchers to Present Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Findings

Quote taken from Dr. Paul Cheney on the Virus History wrote:
” I contacted Elaine DeFreitas PhD at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania who ultimately found HTLV-II-like genes associated with CFS (1991)[vii]. Her work was unfortunately assaulted by the CDC that claimed either an endogenous RV sequence that lighted up in cases and controls using her primers (per Dr. J.W. Gow) or null responses to cases and controls (per CDC scientist).
Elaine argued that these two scientists with diametrically opposing results manipulated the magnesium concentration which affects the primer stringency and got whatever result they wanted, to make their opposite claims. Her proposal to fly CDC scientists to Philadelphia to run the assays side by side with the her in her lab to see if these results could be replicated was dismissed by the CDC based on “lack of funds to buy plane tickets” from Atlanta to Philadelphia. Dr. Gow would later publish his opinion (1992)[viii]. Left unfunded by senior administrators at the NIH and the CDC, the search for a retroviral link in CFS dissipated and was lost until Judy Mikovits PhD, operating out of the independent Whittemore-Peterson Institute, revived the long search. I congratulate her and the Whittemore-Peterson Institute.”

Dr. William Reeves of the CDC/CFS program did NOT want this study and its data released into the public. This study shows that all the time (3 decades) and money ($150 Million) that the CDC/CFS program spent was wasted and millions of lives were affected horribly by REEVES greed and incompetance. It is in Reeve's best financial interests to keep CFIDS a "psychiatric disease" as he and his associates are involved in the psychiatric arena, and NOT the viral arena they SHOULD have been in these last three decades. This so-called "NEW" virus was discovered back in the early 1990's by Dr. Elaine DeFreitas. The data and findings were surpressed by the NIH/CDC-CFS people and her career ruined.
The newly released study also shows quite clearly that this virus is contagious and that means that anyone can get it. I have had CFIDS for the last 15 years and it would have been far kinder to me if I had died quickly in my sleep from a heart attack rather than have lived in this state of sickness and disability for the last 15 miserable years of my life. Pre-illness, I was a hyper and driven person who worked 14 hour days, had two graduate degrees and was about to start on a doctorate. I was also managing 70 senior staff. Then one summer both my husband and I got a virus and he recovered and I got sicker and sicker until I was sleeping about 22 hours a day for months on end. The body has NO energy. One does not have the energy to lift their head, body, limbs and move. The full-body pain is horrendous and meds do little to relieve this pain. There is extreme damage to the brain and cognitive abilities. I believe my IQ dropped at least 40 points and I can no longer read a small book because I get "lost" and have no memory of what I have just read.
What Reeves and his CDC associates and contractors have done to CFIDS research is plain criminal. He should be prosecuted and put in prison for deliberate negligence at the expense of millions of people. Many of the CFIDS sick are dead from cancers that were recognized more than 15 years ago. So the CFIDS-Cancer connection is well known to CFIDS physicians, researchers AND the CDC/CFS/REEVES. The contagious aspect of this virus was also known two decades ago and Reeves himself told a patient that she should NOT give blood as there was evidence that CFIDS symptoms were being replicated in those receiving the CFIDS blood. Reeves KNEW this virus existed decades ago. Reeves KNEW this was highly contagious and deadly. Yet his financial interests with the Emory University Mind-Body Program and his Adjunct position at Emory kept him from doing what was right and what was his job. Reeves not only needs to be removed but prosecuted. The outrage within the CFIDS community is amazing. And the RAGE is directed straight at DR. WILLIAM REEVES of the CDC/CFS program.
I don't wish evil on anyone BUT I make an exception for William Reeves: May HE get CFIDS and suffer in the ways that millions of people do every single day of their miserable lives.

The CDC is having the Retrovirus group do the lab work for the XMRV instead of Reeves' CDC/CFS GROUP. The CDC KNOWS that the public and researchers are indeed watching to see if the CDC will mess this study up as it did in the 1990 virus discovered by Dr. Elaine DeFreitas. Her work was killed off by the NIH and CDC delibertly. The CDC damaged her study and discredited her and thus, no one wanted to do anymore work on this type of virus since they KNEW that the CDC would destroy their career and reputation as well. That is until Dr. Judy Mikovits and Dr. Dan Peterson at the Whittemore-Peterson Institute in Reno, Nevada. The WPI did in two years with under $1M in a small lab/one room office what the CDC could not/would not do with over $150 MILLION DOLLARS and 30 years.
WATCH THE CDC TO ENSURE THAT THEY DO NOT DESTROY THIS STUDY ON THIS CANCER-CAUSING VIRUS.
We ALL depend upon the results of this study, not just CFIDS sick people. This virus is known to cause a very deadly aggressive prostate cancer and it is expected that it may also cause or be part of the cause for other cancers and major, disabling and deadly diseases. Who knows, it could well be the cause of MS, dementias, Parkinsons, endocrine diseases/immune diseases, GI diseases, and the list goes on and on.
WATCH THE CDC TO MAKE SURE THEY DON'T KILL OFF WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC FINDING IN THIS CENTURY!

DONATE TO THE WPI AT www.wpinstitute.org . This VIRUS affects ALL of us both here in the US and worldwide. It is far more critical than the media-hyped/CDC hyped Swine Flu virus that has shown itself to be even less deadly and far more milder than the normal seasonal viruses.
XMRV is possibly one of the greatest medical/scientific discoveries of this centuury and make well be the key to cancer as well as many other diseases.
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XMRV/XAND Information Center
by cort on October 14, 2009
The discovery of the XMRV retrovirus in most chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) patients appears to be a demarcating point in the history of this illness. The publication of the study in Science, the most prestigious scientific journal in the world, by a stellar cast of researchers from the National Cancer Institute, the Cleveland Clinic and the Whittemore Peterson Institute prompted a flood of stories across the major media outlets and scientific publications including Nature, Scientific American, the New York Times,(two articles), NPR, Fox News, LA Times, etc.
Amid concerns that the blood supply was contaminated the NIH officials announced they’d already held a conference on the issue. The Whittemore Peterson Institute rapidly conferred a new name for what it believes are a cadre of XMRV diseases - XAND (X Associated Neuroimmune Disease).
Questions were quickly raised concerning prevalence, transmission, testing, treatment, etc. Much is still unknown about this new finding with news coming in almost daily. Here’s a great summary of the implications of these findings that I found online: http://aboutmecfs.org/blog/...

What does this study mean?
It gives legitimacy to this disease in a way that had been missing since the beginning. Time will tell - but it will become a “real disease”, and doctors will have to deal with it.
It allows for a name change, to XAND (or something), and the CFS moniker will be gone forever.
It means that there is a path moving forward. The path is not that much different than it has been - but it is broader and clearer.
It means that, within six months, there will be a marker.(The WPI is also working on a cytokine marker that corresponds to the viral marker.)
It means that current drugs will be tested against this virus, starting right away. There are a host of antivirals, anti-HIV drugs, cancer and immune regulatory drugs that can be tested - including a promising ongoing drug in trial in Canada.(Mikovits spoke of this in Reno.) This virus, and the disturbances that are caused by XMRV, will allow for various cocktail treatments to be tested.
It means that Judy Mikovits is on the national research map, and that the WPI will get money to hire more people and work in consort with NIH and NCI researchers.
It means that other researchers will get on board, all over the world.
“This is going to create an avalanche of subsequent studies.” Dr. Schnaffer (Vanderbilt).
This is not so much from a concern about the CFS/ME community, of which the government cares not a whit. The CDC will be freaked out by the 3.7% of the controls that tested positive for the XMRV virus. This translates into 10 million Americans potentially sitting on the edge of “something”. The CDC is going to want to find out about this “something”, and tons of money is going to go into studying this virus. CFS is going to go from an ugly duckling to a poster/delivery boy.
It means that another huge avenue of research and treatment is now open -through a direct connection with AIDS. The huge amount of AIDS research will contribute to research in this area, and move things along quickly.
It means potential treatments and/or disease tracking regimens.
It means that much more information will be coming soon, and at a faster pace. Cheney and Peterson and de Meirleir and Enlander and Lerner and Levine and Myhill and Chia and Montoya and the WPI are all pooling information. Cheney has posted his comments on his cheneyresearch.com . He is totally connected to the idea of this retrovirus being involved in a “causal” way. He is forging his own way, and sharing his ideas.

It means that Ampligen will be most likely approved by the FDA. Ampligen, made by Hemispherx, regulates the RnaseL pathway, and has had success with a good number of patients. Dr. Charles Lapp is particularly upbeat about Ampligen, reporting that he gets good results with patients. Ampligen is infused through an IV, twice a week. Hemispherx is run by a bunch of bozos. They have dithered with the FDA, and screwed up the trials and the protocols for twenty-five years - even though Ampligen is seen as a functional drug for some people. As has been suggested by others, the FDA is complicit in this poorly managed process. Regardless of who is to blame the fact remains that this drug is at a standstill. This PA met a fellow in Reno who regained his normal activities for a number of years on this drug. Subsequently mismanagement by Hemispherx (or the FDA or both) cut him off from access to the drug. He got worse. Then he was able to get back on it, and he got better, and then the company cut him off again. Hemispherx seems incapable of filling out the forms to allow successful trial patients to continue on the drug (standard protocol). Annette Whittemore’s daughter successfully took Ampligen for eight years but had to stop as she developed a reaction to it. On the other side, the FDA has been reluctant to approve a drug for a disease that does not exist in their lexicon. The CDC has been unable or unwilling to engage this disease, preferring instead to feel good about themselves at their fancy dinners.

In a quite unusual fashion, the FDA has delayed the decision on Ampligen. First the FDA announced that a decision was to come on Feb 24, then they switched to May 24, then to two weeks later. Now it is October and nothing has happened. No one knows what the problem is. The FDA says nothing. With this XMRV study and the resultant complete humiliation of the CDC, the FDA is under extreme pressure in regards to Ampligen. If they reject it, they are in deep shit. Ampligen is seen as a front line treatment for CFS - and now with XMRV the pressure has increased. More and better Ampligens are bound to come down the pipeline. The FDA is in a big bind here, and I am betting on approval for Ampligen.
It means that XMRV either causes this immune breakdown or conspires with other things to do it, or is a tag along (not likely). Possibly XMRV acts synergistically with other viruses, particularly HHV-6, to cause illness. Obviously a lot of people are walking around with this disease, including perhaps me, without being symptomatic. Others are able to push it back and have their immune systems function at some level. Many other people, with various treatments, are able to make progress and improve. This doesn’t of course apply to the sickest, who desperately need help.
Most importantly, this study confirms what many people already knew or suspected. The illness is an immune irregulation triggered by a virus or viruses.
“Since the original Science paper was submitted, we have continued to refine our test for XMRV and have surprisingly found that 95 percent ME/CFS samples tested positive for XMRV antibodies in the plasma. This finding clearly points to the retrovirus as a significant contributing factor in this illness,” said Judy Mikovits.
Through trial and error Peterson and Cheney have been following divergent but equally profound models of this illness - and this study brings them together. It looks to me like everyone is on board with this discovery, and this too is big news.
What this study ultimately means, we do not know. We will have to wait for confirmation and further studies.
In the meantime our job is clear. It will be to continue what we are doing, and with a renewed intensity (no stress though). This amounts to following Dr. Guyer’s ideas of strengthening the immune system with diet, rest, immunomodulators, balancing thyroid/adrenal hormones and chipping away at viruses with antivirals. Many other things – FIR sauna, methylation protocol, energetics, improving gut ecology, trampoline, juicing, LDN - are seen as contributing factors to long-term improvement.
The blood work, and other diagnostic and tracking tests, will continue and contribute to our knowledge base that will only grow in time. The fact is that various people recover from the disease, either partially or completely. Items like transfer factor or Isoprinosine or especially Nexavir (which is seen as a weak Ampligen), Ampligen itself, and the antivirals all bring betterment in many cases. Cheney is particularly enthusiastic about artesunate. Chia proposes Oxymatrine for enteroviruses, another player perhaps.
This study is like throwing a bomb into the offices of the CDC and into the offices of every idiotic doctor in the country. They are all scurrying under their little desks. No longer will the patients get this ubiquitous and limp advice from these ignoramuses.

Watch where and what the CDC does with Reeves, as it will be most telling. If they keep him, then you can assume that the CDC knows it messed up big time and they have to keep Reeves around. If they dump him and get him to retire, then they have made the smart assumption that he is a massive problem for the CDC and will continue to be.
WATCH THE CDC AND THE XMRV STUDY
WATCH WILLIAM REEVES AT THE CDC AND WHERE HE GOES.
REMEMBER THAT THE CDC HAS PEOPLE READING EVERYTHING THAT IS WRITTEN ABOUT THE CDC TO PROTECT THEIR REPUTATION.
HOPE YOU CDC PEOPLE READING THIS KNOW THAT MANY OF US ARE GOING AFTER YOU AND EXPOSING YOUR SLEAZY WASTE OF TAXPAYER MONEY. WE ARE WATCHING YOU, THE CDC AND WE ARE JUST SHOWING WHAT YOUR REAL REPUTATION IS.

This virus will be the final straw for both the CDC/CFS program and the CDC and how it does business. It is about time. A dangerous cancer causing virus has been allowed to remain in the nation's blood supply by the CDC - and they KNEW IT but did nothing to stop it. Instead, they play games with other faked viruses to get more Federal funding for stupid stuff like buildings without labs, new fashionable food areas, great gym areas, and so on. So much waste on themselves and nothing for those who are sick and dying.
CDC: YOU WILL BE EXPOSED TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC SOON.