Plague: One Scientist’s Intrepid Search for the Truth about Human Retroviruses and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

A beacon of hope!

This book will challenge anything ever written or said about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/"Chronic Fatigue Syndrome". After a thrilling and inspiring read, one will need to ask Dr. Judy Mikovits, co-author of "Plague", who discovered uncontaminated XMRV-gag-sequences and other retroviral sequences in the blood of patients diagnosed with ME/"CFS", for forgiveness: Great injustice was done to her over the last couple of years by falsely accusing her of being responsible for the contaminaton of her own lab samples and being a liar and a thief! Kent Heckenlively tells the "raise and fall" of Dr. Mikovits in a vibrant and compelling manner. All of those, who followed Dr. Mikovits' case only from a distance, and believed in the misinformation spread by the ones who brought Mikovits down, will finally understand Mikovits' story bit by bit. Her story reads like a thriller! It is the story of a renowned and truthful scientist who acted in favor of those who suffered, and ended up in jail because of her moral integrity. In their eagerness to gain power and profit, her former employers damaged her reputation lastingly. Furthermore, shame on the politicians who exploited Dr. Mikovits "fall" only to push their call forward: If we do not acknowledge ME/"CFS", it simply does not exist! Around the world, ME/"CFS" gets mostly denied, or declared to be a psychiatric illness. That is obvious, if you take into account the disgusting P2P workshop and IOM contract - all the latest efforts of NIH to redefine the disease with non-experts, again! We all know, if Dr. Mikovits was right with what she found before her samples got contaminated, there will be tremendous costs necessary to address what was caused by a health policies that operated carelessly with retroviruses. What if retroviral infections do play into the onset of ME/"CFS", autism, cancer, and other neuro-degenerative illnesses? Heckenlively's talent to tell Mikovits' scientific hypotheses in an easy-to-read style is of tremendo...