Dr Mikovits interview with radio KRCB

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XMRV Global Action's transcript
of Dr Mikovits' interview with radio KRCB


Jan 14, 2011

By XMRV Global Action


Saturday 15 January 2011


KRCB


The content is very familiar but here's the transcript
for those of you who just can't get enough XMRV,
and are interested in what was said....

(May also save you the time of listening to it :)



Bruce Robinson for KRCB
interviews Dr. Judy Mikovits


January 14, 2011

Link: http://krcb.org/north-bay-report/


Interviewer:

A recently discovered virus called XMRV has been
associated with two very different medical
conditions.



Dr. Mikovits:

We’ve identified a new family of human retroviruses,
known as the gammaretroviruses, of which XMRV is
the first to be isolated, which we did last year, and
those are implicated now in CFS, a neurological
disease, as well as the original discovery implicated
them as playing a role in prostate cancer.



Interviewer:

That’s Judy Mikovits… she explains that this human
retrovirus, only the 3rd such virus already identified,
seems to amplify the effects of disease.

She adds that it may also come to be used as a
biological marker for the early identification of those
men most at risk for aggressive prostate cancers.



Dr. Mikovits:

The virus is present in the most aggressive types of
prostate cancer.

Right now, we take a “watch and wait” attitude
because we don’t know in which person the cancer
will kill them, and in which the cancer will be
controlled by the immune system.

But if this is a biomarker of the most aggressive
cancer, then we can have a better treatment protocol
and save millions of dollars in public health by not
treating people who don’t need treatment as early,
and really change the way we treat prostate cancer.



Association with CFS

… We have associated XMRV with a significant
portion of the cohorts throughout America, and the
group of Dr Lo and Alter at the FDA and NIH
confirmed that on the East Coast.

There have been several groups also in Spain,
Norway and Belgium where we have identified the
virus, very high numbers of CFS.



Interviewer:

… Recent research suggests that 4% or more of all
Americans may be infected with the retrovirus, which
is called that because it reverses a section of DNA.
Mikovits says those carriers can be identified with a
series of tests.



Dr. Mikovits:

We don’t know where inside the body right now is
the major reservoir of the virus, where it’s hiding.

So we test by culturing the virus out of every
patient’s blood. We also look for the immune
response, so if you’re making the antibodies to the
retrovirus, then you are infected with the retrovirus.



Interviewer:

But when there is a positive test, she adds, the
infection is there to stay.



Dr. Mikovits:

The DNA of the virus is integrated into your cells for
the life of those cells, so it is a lifelong infection.



Interviewer:

Because XMRV was only recently identified and
isolated, its possible effects and associations are
quite controversial, and they are only beginning to
be studied.

New areas of inquiry include possible associations
with Lyme Disease, breast cancer, and other cancers.





M.S.


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