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Prions are not viruses, slow or otherwise. Prion diseases are indeed progressive, like PD, but to the best of my knowledge no one has made a connection between the two. Scott >----- Original Message ----- >From: "William P. Taggart" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 7:24 AM >Subject: Re: H. pylori & viruses vs PD > > >Hi Ray! > >It's in the nature of Prion Diseases to be progressive. They have >alternatively been referred-to as "slow viruses". They often cause >symptoms that at first can seem to be viral in nature but that then >slowly and inexorably progress to the disadvantage of the host animal... >With many of the developing symptoms being analogous to the symptoms of >advancing Parkinsons Disease. > >Is that what you mean? :-) > >ATB, Bill > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >M.SchildAM.Schild >-----Original Message----- >From: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network >[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of rayilynlee >Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:09 PM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: H. pylori & viruses vs PD > >Bill, how does one account for the progressive nature of PD? >ray >----- Original Message ----- >From: "William P. Taggart" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 5:44 AM >Subject: H. pylori & viruses vs PD > > >I'm willing to bet that it will turn out that Parkinson's is a prion >disease... It might actually be caused by subunits of prions that are >even smaller than prions per-se... fibrils, which are tiny chains of >protein... There is increasing evidence that prions are much more >prevalent than previously recognized. Prions are associated with many >kinds of degenerative neurological diseases, both in humans and in >animals. > >Does anyone have any further information on prions & PD? > >All The Best, billt > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] >In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn Scott E. Antes Department of Anthropology Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5200 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn