Dr. Bjorn Sigurdsson, the chief medical examiner for Iceland during WWII, who was actually a vetinarian, also puzzling about the epidemic in the far northern town of Akureyri, said that the disease simulated poliomyelitis (there were 3 actual cases of polio prior to this outbreak).
The 3inch thick tome published in 1992 by the Florence Nightingale Foundation in Canada, The Clinical and Scientific Basis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, also brought up the by-now-fading-but-lingering poliomyelitis theory. One contributor stated that CFS was subclinical poliomyelitis; another that it was delayed acute onset poliomyelitis-like illness.
Yet the very same book has a couple of different contributors noting that during the acute febrile phase of the illness, people do not get colds. Now colds are caused by an adenovirus, so it seems obvious to me that the disease is not caused by a virus; that there is a virus suppressing mechanism at work here.
The acute phase has often been called as feeling as though the sufferer has "a dose of flu"; this is actually carrageenan (a seaweed additive common in many foods) reaching a certain point, a point of no return, where it overloads the intestinal system causing lysosomes (containing caustic digestive enzymes) to break open spilling their contents thus damaging and ulcerating the intestinal wall. Carrageenan then floods into the body - this is the part that people say feels like the flu.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Past presumed virus causes of CFS
I recently picked up a book at my local library called: The Virus Within, by Nicholas Regush (an ABC science journalist) printed in 2001, which states that the Human Herpes Virus - 6 is the cause of CFS. During the late 1980's and early 1990's, several teams of American researchers said that they had found a particular herpes virus in people with CFS. The first such researcher was Robert Gallo, the head of the National Cancer Institute. Interestingly, Gallo had first tested CFS patients for the Epstein Barr Virus (EBV), before deciding on HHV-6.
Then Donald Carrigan at the Medical College at the Children's Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was also testing CFS patients for a viral cause to their illness. He first looked at the cytomegalovirus (CMV) but later decided that HHV-6 was the responsible party.
Other researchers also jumped on the HHV-6 bandwagon, but, ultimately, all have failed to establish that this virus was to blame. Before HHV-6, from the late 1940's through to the early 1960's, it was stated as a fact that the polio virus was to blame. So much so that in Iceland, during the 1st modern mass outbreak, CFS was often labeled as Benign Myalgic Poliomyelitis, so what are the odds that the latest jumping-on-the-bandwagon virus label - XMRV - will also will soon fade away as no real evidence will be found to link CFS with the XMRV virus!
Then Donald Carrigan at the Medical College at the Children's Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was also testing CFS patients for a viral cause to their illness. He first looked at the cytomegalovirus (CMV) but later decided that HHV-6 was the responsible party.
Other researchers also jumped on the HHV-6 bandwagon, but, ultimately, all have failed to establish that this virus was to blame. Before HHV-6, from the late 1940's through to the early 1960's, it was stated as a fact that the polio virus was to blame. So much so that in Iceland, during the 1st modern mass outbreak, CFS was often labeled as Benign Myalgic Poliomyelitis, so what are the odds that the latest jumping-on-the-bandwagon virus label - XMRV - will also will soon fade away as no real evidence will be found to link CFS with the XMRV virus!
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