Dear Dee, I hope you will share your thoughts. I am an observer more or less completely on a distant playing field, not a player at all in the NPF - PDF dialogue. You can probably say what no one dares to say. Ivan Personally I believe a gene change caused by post-viral DNA damages, like in the movie, Awakenings, makes sense to explain many cases of PD. Ivan 53/39/35 Dee writes PIEN, in part: I am saving for > another day my > comments on the two nation Parkinson's Foundations that cannot > seem to set > aside their differences (and possibly their positions of power) > for the good > of the people they serve. > > Dee > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn