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Ivan: I can't give you any details, but I've heard Dr. Langston state several times that PD is not viral and not infectious (so no bacteria, either). Re the post-encephalitis parkinsonism, I believe that Lewy bodies (the pathological hallmark of PD) were not found in the brain tissue of these folks at autopsy. I haven't heard anything about the post-herpes women in Taiwan, but it's curious--I thought herpes never goes away at all, but lingers in the body ready for new outbreaks and why only women???? Carole Cassidy At 10:00 AM 7/9/98 -0400, you wrote: > 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 > >^^^^^^WARM GREETINGS FROM^^^^^^^^^^ >Ivan Suzman 48/11 [log in to unmask] >Portland, Maine land of lighthouses 67 deg. F puffy white clouds >against a powder-blue sky >*********************************************************** > >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 >> > >