How long do you think it will take to see medical breakthroughs concerning the new XMRV retrovirus and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)? Since we’ve been twenty + years getting to this point, one might think… a long time. But, you could be wrong.
As reported in RGJ.com:
The National Cancer Institute already has started working on a vaccine, and clinical trials are expected to begin at the Whittemore-Peterson Institute sometime next year, Mikovits said.
The world’s largest pharmaceutical companies have been calling the institute asking if they can test their lines of a drug now used to treat patients with HIV, another retrovirus, to see if their anti-viral drugs can be adapted to treat Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients.
“They want us to send them the (XMRV) retrovirus so they can screen huge libraries of compounds and see what they have that could work,” Mikovits said. “They already have drugs to treat HIV, so they could redesign a compound for the XMRV virus. Since they already have FDA approval, they could get something out to people fast.
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Let’s do hope that we see “fast” medical breakthroughs concerning XMRV and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome!
Thanks, Cinda Crawford
Host of the Health Matters Show
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vera swofford 11.10.09 at 1:04 pm
this does matter