My friend Judy is in jail. It defies explanation. Nine policeman appeared at the home of Lilly Meehan yesterday with a warrant and searched her house, finding nothing of course. At the same time, Judy’s house was searched and she was arrested for being a “fugitive”. She was fired unexpectedly and went home to her husband. That’s being a fugitive? Only legal machinations, misuse of the system, could define her as a fugitive. If it wasn’t so horrible, it would be laughable. What she was “fleeing” was a veritable looney bin, having made every attempt to remain on the inside. And now they have taken her freedom. Turning her into not just a fraud, but a criminal, a thief? Come on. She is incarcerated and anything can happen. It is critical that the patient community find ways to let the authorities know that we are watching. If anyone harms a hair on her head, it will be noticed.
Dr. Mikovits was due in New York for the Mt. Sinai conference tomorrow, so would have had to leave the state in any event. And they knew very well she had been invited to that conference; it was no secret and they could have warned her that they thought that a violation of the injunction. What were they going to do if she had just gone to New York? Would she have been hauled off to jail for attending an important ME conference at which she was slated to be on a panel?
My blog is being monitored by the same law firm that sued Dr. Mikovits in the last few days. From Chicago and Kansas City. There are even 3 hits from the tech department in Kansas City. It would appear that they are actually paying really expensive lawyers to think about my blog! Are they going to spend money on a libel suit? To win a libel suit, you have to prove an untruth. I have told the truth and nothing but the truth. Everything I’ve said is my opinion and my own experience. I have nothing to hide and stand behind everything I’ve said. The only blog I regret is the one Harvey fed me about VIP Dx. I believed what he told me implicitly at the time, but now? Anything they told me is suspect. Who are these people? The sweet well-intentioned parents of a sick young woman? They must have used a very long, very strong arm to have made that happen yesterday. An intensive police effort in another state for a non-violent crime? How many cops involved? 20? You’d think she was a serial killer.
For the record, and lawyers at SNR Denton please take note, when I said that the WPI was spending money that patients donated on lawyers, I was stating my opinion, based on my assumption that the WPI’s income comes from grants and donations, and that they aren’t using grant money to pay lawyers. However, I was never privy to the books or finances at the WPI. I did not mean that there are line items in the books showing patient donations going to lawyers. The lack of accountability is part of the problem. What did happen to all that money, since there was lots of it, and apparently still enough left to burn up a bunch on lawyers? I wanted to write a blog before the annual fundraiser, but Judy stopped me. And now they have all that money, to pay lawyers to destroy Judy and go over my blog with a fine tooth comb. Very ugly.
Personally, I think it was Professor Plum in the library with the candlestick. The materials in question document a failed experiment. I have no idea where the notebooks are, but the value being put on them is smoke and mirrors, in my estimate. Their only real value would seem to be to someone with something to hide, which could be a number of people, Judy being the least likely. Any value the notebooks might have had is destroyed with this crazy maneuver. They are in the process of completing the destruction of the only scientist in the world who cares enough to have laid it all on the line. The scientist that helped their daughter by finally conceptualizing what was wrong with her, even if she didn’t have the resources, human and financial, to prove it. The damage to patients, to my daughter, is inestimable. The Whittemore’s are throwing us back into darkness. Complete meltdown for the patients. They held themselves out as our best hope, but have managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Beyond tragic. They have now ensured their own place in the community as a pariah, it seems to me. The saddest thing of all is that they are fighting about the past, and ensuring that nothing at all will happen going forward, while our hearts get dissected in the courts.
I had to cancel my trip to NYC. I have been pushing to see patients for a couple of weeks and was too close to the edge to throw myself off a cliff and hope to fly. And now this. I will be in LA on Tuesday for Judy’s arraignment. I hope that as many of you as possible will attend. Let the authorities know that we are watching. Let her know that we are with her.
A hearing for Dr. Mikovits will take place on Tuesday, November 22 at the Ventura County Government Center, Hall of Justice, Room 13, at 1:30 p.m. The government center is on Victoria Avenue in East Ventura.
County of Ventura Government Center
800 S. Victoria Avenue
Ventura, California 93009See Click here: Maps Map of the Ventura County Government Center
Parking for the Hall of Justice is accessible from Lots B & C, entering from Victoria Avenue, and from lots E & F, entering from Hill Road. Even with handicapped parking, there is considerable distance to walk from the parking lot to the Hall of Justice, so bring a wheelchair if needed.
Ventura is a coastal Southern California town between Santa Barbara and Malibu. Travel to Ventura County by car is accessible by freeway. The Ventura County Government Center is bordered by the 126 Freeway and Victoria Avenue and is close to the 101 freeway as well.
Amtrac has stops at both Oxnard and Ventura. The Metrolink train station in Montalvo is much closer to the government center than the Amtrac stations, so if possible to use Metrolink, that is the best.
>Probably talking about the treatment of Andrea, their daughter, that they won't do public…
>ME is a neurological disorder has been classed as such by the WHO since 1969
CFS is chronic fatigue and 4 minor symptoms
The latter is just a sociopolitical construct a description of a bunch of symptoms which could be caused by practically anything
No one could diagnose MS using chronic fatigue and 4 minor symptoms as the sole diagnostic guide and neither can they diagnose ME
There are abnormalities common to all neuroimmune diseases which could easily be used to differentiate people with a neuroimmune disease with those from chronic fatigue and 4 minor self reported symptoms
The current method of diagnosis is BS
labeling all people who have chronic fatigue of unknown or psychological origin and 4 self reported minor symptoms as having a neurological condition without using markers of neuroimmune abnormalities as part of the differential diagnosis protocol is pure BS
>Dearest Gerwyn,
Where is the diagnostic procedure which allows a physician to unequivocally observe inflammation of the brain and spinal cord causing muscle pain (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) ? As usual you are talking out your rear end. For anyone else who is interested in such stuff, go look it up. Don't take my word for it. Gerwyn, of course, is counting on you NOT looking it up for yourself. Big words as usual, signifying zero.
>No, Gerwyn is not talking rubbish. There are lots of simple cheap tests that can prove a person has such a disease. No doubt he will post a few for you in a moment. You really should listen and not open your mouth to complain first.
>Really it is you not reading what Gerwyn has actually said that is the problem. You really will only be made to look stupid if you dont read carefully.
>Dearest Gerwyn,
Where is the diagnostic procedure which allows a physician to unequivocally observe inflammation of the brain and spinal cord causing muscle pain (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) ? As usual you are talking out your rear end. For anyone else who is interested in such stuff, go look it up. Don't take my word for it. Gerwyn, of course, is counting on you NOT looking it up for yourself. Big words as usual, signifying zero.
just look it up you idiot
activated microglia oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction features shared by all neuroimmune diseases
>Ah, another home schooled PhD in Googleology.
>It is conceivable that mitochondrial dysfunction also contrib-
utes to axonal degeneration in the inflammatory stage of the
disease. ROS and NO production by infiltrated macrophages and
activated microglia is believed to significantly contribute to
demyelination and axonal damage in inflammatory MS lesions
(Ferguson et al., 1997; Smith et al., 1999). Accordingly, there is
ample evidence of oxidative damage to lipids, proteins and DNA
in these inflammatory MS lesions (van Horssen et al., 2008; Vladi-
mirova et al., 1998) Not surprisingly, most oxidative damage to
DNA was found in mtDNA (Lu et al., 2000), as mtDNA is 10 times
more susceptible to DNA damage than nuclear DNA, due to the ab-
sence of histones and repair mechanisms (Mecocci et al., 1993).
Oxidative damage to mtDNA was associated with decreased activ-
ity of complex I of the OxPhos chain in MS lesions (Lu et al., 2000).
This decrease in complex I activity coincided with significantly in-
creased complex IV activity, possibly as a compensatory mecha-
nism to maintain the electrochemical gradient across the inner
mitochondrial membrane (Mahad et al., 2009; Witte et al., 2009).
Thus, ROS produced by infiltrated macrophages and activated
microglia in inflammatory MS lesions damage mtDNA and
decrease oxidative phosphorylation, which, in analogy to several
neurodegenerative diseases, leads to decreased ATP production
and increased ROS production by the OxPhos chain itself, thereby
contributing to axonal degeneration in inflammatory MS lesions
(Beal, 1995; Browne et al., 1997; Schapira et al., 1990).
>As I said, PhD is Googleology. Amazing how many are being awarded these days.
>As I said, PhD is Googleology. Amazing how many are being awarded these days.
it looks like you have a PHD in stupidity
for those who are interested the abnormalities can be readily detected using a combination of 31P NMRS and PET scans.The idiot above seems to think that these tests are beyond Drs
These are the things we can campaign for.If our physicians are willing to say that our disease is neuroimmune in origin which of course it is then they should be encouraged to use these non invasive measures as a differential diagnosis which will separate people with our illness from those with chronic fatigue of unknown or psychological origin and four minor self reported symptoms
Our supportive physicians have done an excellent job in keeping the psychatrists at bay
I submit that the time has come to encourage them to adopt these tests as objective markers of neuroimmune abnormalities before entering patients into trials.This will produce homogenous cohorts and prevent our enemies undoing their good work by simply filling their trial populations with people who do not have neuroimmune abnormalities but pretending that they do have
One of the weapons used against Dr judy have been trial populations full of people with no demonstrable neuroimmune disease. It is then impossible to tell whether results are the product of an absence of retrovirus,useless assays or the examination of a different patient population
>I am going to put an end to the discussion about Gerwyn and start removing repetitive posts. Please do not make me do this. I do not have the time to moderate. Gerwyn should start his own blog, and people who are annoyed by him should refrain from commenting. Gerwyn, please do not repeat yourself and stay on topic. We have bigger fish to fry, people. Judy is in jail without bail! Her research is destroyed. Most of this is displacement activity from the real trouble we are in as a patient community. Everyone participating in this ridiculous display, stop behaving like middle schoolers!
Jamie
>I would like to extend an invitation to anyone inclined to join me at 1:30pm Pacific time (or a few minutes before)on Tuesday.
This is something we can do as a community that doesn't rely on anything but intention. It is something we can DO, that can pull like-minded people in the patient community together. The nay-sayers will, well, nay say, but this is very powerful work and I think anyone who chooses to participate will feel good about it. Anyone who has participated in community prayer or meditation knows exactly what I'm suggesting here.
At 1:30pm Pacific (and if you're in a different time zone it is a quick Google to find out what it is in yours) I intend to sit down, center and focus. I will then fill that courtroom with the highest Light, with the intention that what will happen will be the Highest Probability.
It matters more that you are centered and focused than the length of time you can do this. Even a few seconds in a very centered state is just as effective as longer but more scattered. What is critical is a joining of hands, so to speak, and holding for all we are worth for the Highest Probability.
The reason that I will keep it quite non-specific is that "Highest Probability" broadens the canvas to allow the highest good and highest Light to manifest – perhaps in ways we could not have imagined and better as well as from completely unexpected directions. Results may not be immediately visible, but rest assured that this is not a trivial thing and will be a very strong influence on the course of events.
I intend to see that courtroom just stuffed with the best and brightest Light that I can muster.
I can muster quite a bright Light, I think, and anyone who joins will increase that by orders of magnitude.
Remember, he of the Highest Light wins! Wanna play?
>Judy, Jamie,
Please know that we are thinking of you and supporting you.
>@kkrizani – I will play. Thanks for putting this out there.
>kkrizani, I think that's a good idea. I'll join you at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday. It beats worrying.
>The fact that Dr Judy is in Jail is very upsetting and frustrating. I cannot believe that the WPI has resorted to such divisive mechanisms as an attempt to stall the work of such an inspirational researcher and compassionate down to earth human being. I fully support Judy and do not believe that the scientist I met on several occasions would ever be able to resort to the alleged behavior.
I will not be donating any further funds to the WPI that appear to be being spent in an attempt to discredit the ground-breaking work of Dr Mikovits. As for the WPI's legal team reading this, I hope you are away that anyone with access to the Lab, i.e. those other than Judy could well have been involved. Others may well have a motive to discredit Dr Mikovits after her forced departure from the institute. Moreover I'm sure the WPI want to retain all of the credit for discovery of HGRV's and the associated physiological abnormalities (cytokines etc.) found in ME patients. After all this is what put them in the spotlight, this promising work by Dr Mikovits is what led to patients and other groups providing the institute with substantial funding.
Judy – myself and my family are thinking of you all the way from the UK! Stay Strong, you are courageous, compassionate and are inspiring to so many around the world, because of you I have become fascinated in the science underlying human disease and wish one day to pursue a career in this field :-)
>Thank you Jamie for keeping on blogging for us. I wish only the best for both you and Judy. I am a friend of Judy and also an ME patient. I find the fact of her being locked in jail very distressing indeed. She is not a criminal. She is not the bad guy here. I think we all know who that is.
My thoughts and good wishes will remain with both of you and Lilly who had the very distressing experience of having her house searched by the police. For what reason I cannot grasp.
To those of you who are asking for proof of princess Andrea intimidating people, I will say only that she has tried to intimidated me by email. I think it is time she grew up. I have forwarded those emails on to Judy's lawyer.
My thoughts are continually with Judy, a very sincere inspiring woman.
Your UK friends are pulling for you Judy.
>If the Whittemore's are committing a truly unsavory act, all I can say is, there is a HIGHER court. Annette's silence is deafening.
Where is the class action suit against the WPI and the Whittemore's for allegedly fraudulent culture and serology testing for XMRV, as well as donations being potentially misallocated? There is a serious conflict of interest here; always was.
Someone needs to recruit a lawyer willing to take up the cause. We deserve renumeration, for fraud, waste, and abuse, further pain and suffering, and private patient information gone missing and potentially compromised.
Does anyone know a successful lawyer that has taken to these causes before?
>Hi Jamie
Can you explain more about how Mikovits research is destroyed? Are you meaning because the materials have disappeared and are in hostile hands, not Judys? Thanks.
>The WPI just shot themselves in the foot, first by the firing in such an aggressive, abrasive manner, second by the lawsuit against Dr. Mikovits, and third, in whatever role they have in having her arrested and jailed. This is despicable behavior.
And whichever CFS-sufferers sympathized with them at all now will decisively side with Dr. Mikovits, in opposition to the sheer bullying that WPI has carried out and continues.
And to have her lawyer's house searched is unbelievable. I hope the ACLU and the American Bar Association are contacted about this. At the least, it violates attorney-client confidentality. It also flies in the face of basic civil liberties, attorneys' and clients' rights.
And bottom line, what WPI has done does not help us, does not help the millions of us with CFS who are truly suffering. It does not help us with finding out the cause of this disease, nor treatments.
It creates more stress for us, as we get more symptoms from the brutal way in which this is being handled.
This is about much more than CFS. This is about power and wealth in a highly connected family, which is being vindictive against a woman scientist, and using all the powers of the government to come down on her.
And to reiterate, see the Wikipedia entry on the Whittemores. It's shocking.
How could anyone with this disease, a family member, researcher, doctor or agency trust them again?
>Kathy, where is the information about Judy's lawyer's house being search? Thanks.
Can I point out that Science magazine are blocking comments in Cohen's article.
>Is Lilly Meehan also Judy's lawyer? That is not correct, is it?
>Lily is a patient and friend.
>No, Lilly Meehan, who had her house searched, is a friend of Dr. Mikovits' and a ME/CFS patient. The confusion may have arisen because Lilly was the one who shared Judy's lawyer's letter to WPI on facebook. -Jocelyn
>Could it be possible that Judy actually did something worthy of being arrested for? I ask this in all seriousness since the arrest of such a high profile figure in ME would cause some backlash, especially if it's untrue. And a second thought. We are all commenting based speculation. I doubt that we have all facts including Jamie. We should see how this plays out because if she did take advantage of patient research then she deserves to go to jail.
>I don't know what "taking advantage of patient research" means.
>there is nothing that Judy can have done in all the worst case scenarios that would justify being in jail. There is a "civil suit" against her for allegedly taking materials that are allegedly the possession of the WPI. that is a matter that can be worked out in a civil court proceeding. I can't even imagine anything she could have done that justified criminal proceedings and land in jail.
>Dr Judy Milovits is innocent and has done nothing wrong at all.
>There is absolutely nothing that Dr. Mikovits could have done that led to her jailing and detention and missing an important seminar in New York at Mount Sinai on CFS research. Nothing!
We, the CFS community, needed her to be there to contribute her knowledge.
She's being hunted down and treated like a fugitive from justice like on a "Wanted" poster, reserved for the worst criminals, international traffickers in drugs and human beings, physical abusers, kidnappers, murderers.
And thank you, Jocelyn, for clearing up the issue about the house search. That was not clear, although it is posted on some other websites.
We should be calling the Ventura County Pre-Trial Detention Facility, and whomever else we can, to call for her release.
If anyone has access to a blog and/or a list-serve it would be good to post phone numbers and contact information.
Whatever happened or happens, people here have the right to justice, and due process of law. There is a presumption of innocence unless someone is found otherwise in a fair, impartial trial.
And this is a civil trial, right? It is not a criminal trial. I have never heard of someone being held in a civil proceedings before.
>1:30pm on Tuesday, Pacific, is 9:30pm GMT/UT. I like kkrizani's idea. Lets send a flood of love and positivity and light. I'm in. It's all I can do.
JC
>sad
>comparing the Whittemores to Hitler ….. not nice…. what a terrible thing to say about Hitler
>Did Lipkin with his great interest in CFS go to the important meeting at Mount Sinai New York today. It was two miles from his ivory tower
>Because of the "notebooks" containing info regarding Federal NIH grant they have also filed Criminal Charges against her in Nevada which is why they were able to get a warrant for her as a fugitive crossing state lines with "the goods"~ Supposedly……
Please also know that:
Nevada's Second Judicial District Court will hear a preliminary injunction against Mikovits on 22 November.
I don't know the exact time, but please send your Bright Light to this address on the same day.
75 Court Street
Reno, NV 89501
You can Google the address to SEE Exactly where to send the Light.
If someone can obtain the exact time it would be appreciated.
Judy IS a Bright Light "Around the World" and the World needs her to continue her research.
Even the Whittmorre's have validated her worth
by the very act of them choosing her to be their
Chief of Research. That can not be negated by their current behavior.
…and if they are Catholics (as they state) than they KNOW there is a Higher Judge for their actions and the harm they are causing the patients around the world currently..and they ARE Harming the patients, I have heard from many that are relapsing behind this reprehensible crime they are committing.
In my opinion, Dr. Judy has Already HELPED many more than they have or will.
And those that have XMRV antibodies stand solid in the knowledge that their body has already been fighting a retrovirus whatever the acronym. NO paper can change that Fact.
Bless You Judy !
character is revealed thru actions
>What about the Court of Public Opinion? What about the Court of CFS-sufferers?
WPI has lost that battle. People with CFS and their families won't trust them after this ridiculous conduct.
None of this is helping us. And, in fact, this stress is exacerbating our symptoms. True.
I feel like I'm watching The Godfather, only this family is using their bevy of attorneys and all the government power they can muster to go after one scientist, a woman at that.
This whole thing must be worth millions of dollars or they wouldn't do it.
>I wish we could all be in Nevada on Tuesday and pack the courtroom. That would be the best thing.
>I have to admit that WPI had my undying support. As a person with severe CFS that gave my last dollar to them, I am beyond disillusioned.
One of my children threw one of the first fundraisers for them shortly after the discovery of XMRV in October 2009. I should have gotten my first clue when they never acknowledged the event or the sizable donation they were sent.
They never even thanked me or my child!
Now there's some great PR. I guess when you're already filthy rich (like the Whittemore's) there is no reason to say thank you to us sickly peons.
And they have a daughter with this illness!
>WPI didn't acknowledge the event or donation or thank you or your child?
What kind of behavior is that? And, I'm sure they accepted the money and used it.
To tell the truth, I read the Wikipedia entry about the Whittemores when I first heard of them, and I was leery after I read it. It is not a nice story about how money was raised. Folks should read it.
I think they have lost all credibility with the CFS community, and should find another way to keep raking in millions.
>So…..all our donations made to the WPI which we were told were for the PATIENTS, um, what patients exactly? Andrea Whittemore appears to be the only patient of the WPI.
Did we all just pay for her medical treatment of an ARV drug and possibly other totally unattainable medical interventions which no one else in the ME community will ever have access to?
So,if there is one patient at the WPI, you know who, who has made MARKED improvement on Tenofovir, and goes and does a little video talking about how much better she is and continues to encourage us to donate to the WPI "for the patients," (what patients?) don't the ME sufferers who donated to the institute deserve to know this information?
We aren't all millionairs, some of us donated $5 to the WPI when it was all we could spare, and NO new information has been forthcoming out of the WPI.
And did they or did they not make it appear that their clinic would be open by now and serving patients? Anyone been there? Receving any new treatments?
Didn't Annette make it seem in that video that the clinic would be openiing any day now?
Who can we trust, can someone tell me?
>The WPI won't be giving anyone the treatment Andrea has been getting for her HGRV infection. So why go there over anywhere else. We needed Mikovits to complete research to get the ARVs +
>I will add to my post above 6:15AM and say how can they give people ARVs when the authorities will stop them without research from people like Mikovits. I don't think it's right Andrea should get them if millions of others are denied because poor Judy is unable to work at this time.
>If insurance companies will not pay for ARV's and patients can not get them on a "compassionate" basis from the drug company because the HGRV infection in ME is still unproven, then the only people who will be able to get the drugs are people who are Whittemore type wealth.
There are already people screaming "NO ARV's FOR CFS!" like we are killing HIV patients by possibly taking one of these drugs…..it is sick sick sick. So we'd have to take the drugs on the "down low" even if we had the money to buy them?
The Whittemore's put themselves in this mess by going public stating that a mysterious "pill" has made Andrea better. And before that, she talked about all those years of taking Ampligen…..how much did that cost? Hundreds of thousands of dollars? Yet another treatment no one but the rich can get….
They should have never stated anything about Andrea improving from "from a pill" unless they were willing to be forthcoming with details. She deserves medical privacy, but she opened that door herself, and now that she/they enticed the whole patient community with details of a mysterious treatment which has given her part of her life back…..do they expect DONOR-PATIENTS not to ask questions?
Ok, no more tangents for me…
>kathie d.
You betcha they took the money. Called me the day after the event to find out how much was raised and asked for a certified check.
I called a few days after mailing and had to leave a message to see if the check was received. It was of course and cashed right away.
Never heard a word from them.
>Maybe ask for our donations to be returned on the basis of being "mislead"? Not mislead about XMRV, but mislead to believe that we were donating to a medical institution that would be opening to treat patients with ME/CFS.
I donated so that people could be treated at this clinic, and that is not happening.
I had friends donate to. I feel rather foolish right now.
Where is the clinic. Where are the doctors. Where are the treatments. Where are the patients. What did we donate for?
??????
>Sadly Andrea was NOT the only patient..
There was also a patient that was doing better
until recently when she has had many strokes and is in the hospital now and not doing well..
you probably saw her in the WPI Vivint video for when they accepted the check from Vivint.
It's really sad.. and she has kids at home and the Dr's say she will NEVER be the same as she was before and will ALWAYS Need Help at home now..
>That is terrible…..I am so sorry for her. I wish her all the best care in the world. My heart goes out to her and her loved ones.
>This is a matter of "cut off nose to spite face". WPI now has few if any who are CFS savvy. Just how many competent personnel do they think they will be able to attract in the future, regardless of the outcome. Little thought was given to the daughter as they will now have to search the net for credible researchers & organizations & decipher which are greed &/or politically motivated or just have an alternative motive.
There is another Chase give away but people aren't voting. I wonder why? Do you think that it could have something to do with the fact that regardless of "intent" for gifts or winnings that the charitable organization can use the funds for whatever they choose. Someone should take a survey on all monetary & chase gifts to see what they thought they were supporting. I for one was voting for funds for Mikovitz's XMRV research. Now where is the real theft?
>And the beat goes on……..the beat goes on.
>Roger Y. Dodd, John Hackett Jr, Jeffrey M. Linnen, Kerri Dorsey, Yanyun Wu, Shimian Zou, Xiaoxing Qiu, Priscilla Swanson, Gerald Schochetman, Kui Gao, James M. Carrick, David E. Krysztof, Susan L. StramerArticle first published online: 21 NOV 2011
© 2011 American Association of Blood Banks
BACKGROUND: When xenotropic murine leukemia virus–related virus (XMRV) was first reported in association with chronic fatigue syndrome, it was suggested that it might offer a risk to blood safety. Thus, the prevalence of the virus among blood donors and, if present, its transmissibility by transfusion need to be defined.
STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: Two populations of routine blood donor samples (1435 and 13,399) were obtained for prevalence evaluations; samples from a linked donor-recipient repository were also evaluated. Samples were tested for the presence of antibodies to XMRV-related recombinant antigens and/or for XMRV RNA, using validated, high-throughput systems.
RESULTS: The presence of antibodies to XMRV could not be confirmed among a total of 17,249 blood donors or recipients (0%; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0%-0.017%); 1763 tested samples were nonreactive for XMRV RNA (0%; 95% CI, 0%-0.17%). Evidence of infection was absent from 109 recipients and 830 evaluable blood samples tested after transfusion of a total of 3741 blood components.
CONCLUSIONS: XMRV and related murine leukemia virus (MLV) markers are not present among a large population of blood donors and evidence of transfusion transmission could not be detected. Thus, these viruses do not currently pose a threat to blood recipient safety and further actions relating to XMRV and MLV are not justified.
>in response to the above post by anon 12:01pm
http://okeefe-lab.blogspot.com/2011/11/so-lets-get-this-straight-cfs-patients.html?spref=tw