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Re: borna virus, tests available? amantadine treat

Posted by rod on July 2, 2005, at 12:23:59

In reply to Re: borna virus, tests available? amantadine treat, posted by linkadge on July 1, 2005, at 16:55:22

> I guess what I'm wondering is if the drug works best when given before the disease has had time to manifest itself fully.
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> Linkadge

Well, I guess you are right.

But it seems your body is able to beat the virus without the help of any drugs. All thechnical assistents working at the virology department where I made my test do have antibodies, but none of them had an acute infection at the time tested, and none of them was depressed or had any other mental disease.
In my opinion the borna and depression connection is odd.
I have talked with them for some time there and they told me they made a study a short time ago and screened all psychiatric inpatients in the major hospitals in town, and only 1 of (i think it was ~300) had an acute infection with the virus present, but this person was virus free 2 weeks after that without taking amantadine or any other conventional anti viral drug. This person has had CFS.
But an interseting thing is that the region I live in is totally borna free. Not even in animals. The only region where it is naturally found in animals is around 500km far away from me, the region "Vorarlberg". And interseting is that this region has the highest suicide rate in th ecountry. Proir knowing that I thought its the society, culture there. But maybe it is indeed the only reason. maybe.
So the big qustionmark actually is where I infected myself? I have never been to Vorarlberg. But i did have a cat from Hungary. But I dont know if the borna virus is found there.

I have posted a study before (and am too lazy to look it up) where scientists believe those who just have one of the two antibodies for a borna virus proteine might have had an infection with a borna *like* virus. I guess the following years and advantages in genetic research, there will be some progress in virus and mental desease research. Right now, scientists seem to be tapping in the dark.

bye
Roland


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