What Mary Ann just posted makes good sense to me.....what I wonder
is, is there a very slow virus , like the HIV/AIDS virus, which is the
cause of PD? If so, a diagnostic test to look for antibodies to the "PD
Virus" would be our pre-PD test, equivalent to an HIV blood test.
AND, such a PD virus might exist---the fact that Amantadine ( or
Symmetrel) quells PD tremors almost suggests that there might well be a
PD virus lurking in each of us-as yet unknown to the medical and
scientific world.
It's also quite curious that there were thousands of early
20th-century post-encephalitis PD victims ,and, I heard somewhere, there
are many, many women who are post-herpes PD victims in Taiwan.
Do people know of other evidence for the development of PD as an
inflammatory process after exposure to a mysterious virus? Is my
information correct?
Ivan
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Portland, Maine land of lighthouses 67 deg. F puffy white clouds
against a powder-blue sky
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On Thu, 9 Jul 1998 08:24:15 -0400 Bent Willow <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
>Jerry wrote:
>
>>"That means the agency spent about $1,162 in research monies
>>for every heart disease death, versus $33,513 for every AIDS
>>death."
>>
>>Hold on a cotton-pickin' minute here. My understanding is
>>that PD gets 28 bucks a year, right? What's up with this? PD
>>is a third-class disease?
>
>
>
>I hear ya, Jerry. I tend to think that AIDS deserves the $33,513
>because
>this virus mutates rapidly. Health care providers are more than a
>little
>nervous
> about what direction that mutation might head. I consider those
>dollars
>well spent if we can prevent this disease from hitting the general
>population.
>
>Considering PD's huge expense in terms of personal, insurance and
>Federal
>dollars, it would seem that our government would gain by increasing
>the
>research funding to discovering a cure for that disease. But our
>government has not always excelled in logic.......
>
>-----
>Regards
>Mary Ann
>
