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...A Virus Called HTLV-1 From 1500-Year-Old Mummies Infected 40 Percent of Adults In Rural Australia
techtimes.com ^ | 7 May 2018, 2:11 pm EDT | Steven Lerner

Posted on 05/07/2018 12:07:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin

An ancient virus that is a cousin of HIV is infecting a large portion of indigenous people in Australia, and doctors are unsure how it got to be so prevalent.

HTLV-1, or Human T-lymphotropic virus 1, is a human retrovirus that can cause harmful diseases such as bronchitis, leukemia, and lymphoma. Researchers have found traces of the virus in 1500-year-old Andean mummies.

A recent preliminary study from the Baker Institute for Heart and Diabetes in Alice Springs found that 40 percent of adults living in a remote region in Australia are infected with HTLV-1. Less than 14 percent of the population had HTLV-1 in 1993.

In addition, 30 percent of patients have diseases that could have resulted from HTLV-1. The study took place between 2015 and 2018.

"This is probably the highest-ever reported prevalence in any population," said Dr. Graham Taylor, a clinician and professor at Imperial College London.

Most of the infected adults are members of the indigenous community in Australia.

(Excerpt) Read more at techtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: australia; htlv1; mummies
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To: fidelis

Thought so too.


21 posted on 05/07/2018 12:27:31 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: fidelis

Well said.


22 posted on 05/07/2018 12:28:04 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: BenLurkin

Haha!! Yep!


23 posted on 05/07/2018 12:28:30 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: GOP Poet
Although an interesting and informative article regarding this virus and its impact, it never once address HOW the virus came from the mummy to the people

The article was very poorly written by someone that is medically ignorant.

Although the virus has been found in mummies it continues into the present due to normal transmission routes of viruses and the present is not infected from mummies of the past.

A more interesting question is why such a large percentage of the aboriginal population is infected. Also, if this virus is genetically related to HIV it would be very interesting to know the susceptibility of this infected population to HIV. Medically this is very interesting.

24 posted on 05/07/2018 12:28:52 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: Pontiac

Call it Clintoniteist.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread172390/pg1

When Juanita was displayed at the National Geographic Society in Washington in 1996, President Bill Clinton joked that she was so attractive, “If I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out.”


25 posted on 05/07/2018 12:29:00 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: GOP Poet

Call it Clintoniteist.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread172390/pg1

When Juanita was displayed at the National Geographic Society in Washington in 1996, President Bill Clinton joked that she was so attractive, “If I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out.”


26 posted on 05/07/2018 12:29:36 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: BenLurkin

Was Bubba anywhere near a mummy? When viewing one he said: “That’s a good-looking mummy I would date.”


27 posted on 05/07/2018 12:29:55 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: fwdude

Dancing With the Dead May be Spreading the Plague in Madagascar

http://www.newsweek.com/dancing-dead-plague-madagascar-693513


28 posted on 05/07/2018 12:30:23 PM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: GOP Poet
Yeah. You got me. Who had sex with the mummy?


29 posted on 05/07/2018 12:30:33 PM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: luvbach1

Beat me to it!


30 posted on 05/07/2018 12:31:13 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: cpdiii
Well, that takes the cake...


31 posted on 05/07/2018 12:32:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: cpdiii

Ahhh! Finally a medically knowledgable take on this article. Thank you. And you’re right. It would be very interesting to look at this from a solid medical perspective.


32 posted on 05/07/2018 12:33:08 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: rjsimmon

This explains the time they had to hold her up and throw her in the van. The batteries ran out and needed to be replaced.


33 posted on 05/07/2018 12:35:19 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: MNJohnnie

Well, well, well. Nice find!!! And this fits many of his ‘attraction cures—female, teenager (although he’ll go for whatever is available), and not given to fighting him off. Perfect for Clinton. No wonder he could barely keep it in his pants. Me thinks if he was alone . . .


34 posted on 05/07/2018 12:39:54 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: BenLurkin
I know how:


35 posted on 05/07/2018 12:46:34 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I think that’s a good name. For any “natives”.

I’ve been lobbying to call our Indians aborigines for a good while. I detest the term “native American” (capitalized!).


36 posted on 05/07/2018 12:55:00 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: BenLurkin

Very good...er...bad...er good.


37 posted on 05/07/2018 1:07:49 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Try this

**Amerind*8 may refer to: Amerind peoples, also Amerindians, the indigenous peoples of the Americas

notes use of plural


38 posted on 05/07/2018 1:10:07 PM PDT by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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To: BenLurkin

Uh oh!


39 posted on 05/07/2018 1:11:48 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: BenLurkin

Another disease for the promiscuous to spread so we can pay for treatment....paranoid alert...paranoid alert...ya think the media and healthcare industry and big pharma want to stimulate others to higher sexual activity and subsequently get STD’s so they can make money off of treatment?


40 posted on 05/07/2018 1:22:30 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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