Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE)
[SSPE is touted as a risk factor from measles ('SSPE is a rare complication of measles'--CDC), and to sell MMR, a theory taken apart by Duesberg 1 . SSPE from vaccination more likely.]
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Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), a mouthful of a
name for such a rare condition, attacks a small number of schoolchildren and
teenagers each year, causing dementia, learning disabilities, and finally death.
Doctors first recognized SSPE in the 1930s, and by the 1960s the virus hunters
were searching for an SSPE germ. At that time, the most fashionable viruses for
research belonged to the myxovirus family, which included the viruses that
caused influenza, measles, and mumps. Animal virologists therefore started by
probing for signs of myxoviruses. Excitement mounted after trace quantities of
measles virus were detected in the brains of SSPE patients, and in 1967 most of
the victims were found to have antibodies against measles. The facts that SSPE
affected only one of every million measles--infected people and that this rare
condition appeared from one to ten years after infection by measles were no
longer a problem: Researchers simply hypothesized a one- to ten-year latency
period. Little wonder they could also easily rationalize that one virus could
cause two totally different diseases.
Koprowski's foray into SSPE
research began in the early 1970s. He began isolating the measles virus from
dying SSPE victims, a nearly impossible task because their immune systems had
long before completely neutralized the virus (some SSPE cases, more-over had
never had measles, merely the measles vaccine). His characteristic patience
nonetheless paid off, yielding a tiny handful of virus particles from some
patients that could be coaxed to begin growing again, if only in laboratory cell
culture. In other patients only defective viruses that were unable to grow had
remained so many years after the original measles infection. Rather than
concluding the measles virus had nothing to do with SSPE, he employed the new
logic of virus hunting to argue that a defective measles virus caused SSPE!
Koprowski continued this line of
SSPE research for several more years. But in 1985 Gajdusek himself entered the
SSPE fray, publishing a paper with leading AIDS researcher Robert Gallo in which
they proposed that HIV, the supposed AIDS virus, caused SSPE while remaining
latent. With hardly a blink, several leading virologists jettisoned the old
measles-SSPE hypothesis in favor of a newly popular, but equally innocent,
virus.
Multiple sclerosis (MS), the
notorious disease that also attacks the nervous system and ultimately kills, has
provided yet another opportunity for the virus hunters. First, they blamed the
measles virus starting in the 1960s, since many MS patients had antibodies
against the virus. Ten years later others suggested the mumps virus, which is
similar to measles. The early 1980s brought the
coronavirus hypothesis of MS, the category of virus better known for causing
some colds. In 1985, with Gajdusek stealing his thunder for SSPE, Koprowski also
published a scientific paper that year in Nature with Robert Gallo, in this case
arguing that some virus similar to HIV now caused MS. Unfortunately for
Koprowski, even this hypothesis was abandoned within just a few years.
Slow Viruses: The
Original Sin Against the Laws of Virology & Phantom viruses and big bucks By
Peter H. Duesberg and Bryan J. Ellison