I was listening to a snippet on the news a short while ago where they were
talking about cancer cells that were just at the edge of where the imunine
system recognizes them as being foreign and attacks them and kills them...
The news was talking about genetic engineering to get the immune system
to extend that little bit more so it will detect cancer and fight it...
FeLV is probably the reverse of extending ... Thus the very high rate of
cancer deaths ....
Tad
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Phaewryn,
That's really interesting (and scary) [re: last paragraph]. I'm
thinking that it isn't the vaccine that lends itself to
carcinoma...it's the virus. There's more here than meets the eye...or
brain, I should say, at first glance. I guess i've known that
lymphoma was an unwelcome complication -- but i never really put two
and two together in my head on a molecular/viral level. FeVL is a
virus...more and more cancers are found to be linked to viruses. I
can feel the rest of that thought in the front of my head putting
pressure but there is something here I can't put my finger on that
wants to click. There is a definite link between virus and cancer.
elizabeth
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Subject: Re: ear infection/ear surgery
http://www.sniksnak.com/cathealth/ear-infections.html
http://www.2ndchance.info/earprobs.htm
http://www.2ndchance.info/earsurg.htm
http://www.vetinfo.com/catear.html#Chronic%20otitis%20media%20-%20ear
http://www.vetsurgerycentral.com/ventral%20bulla.htm
http://www.dermapet.com/articles/otitis_surgery.html
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1748-5827.2003.tb00101.x
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1532-950x.2004.04065.x?journalCode=vsu
http://www.dfwvetsurgeons.com/total-ear.html
This one is not likely, but I ran across it, and it does have one
disturbing paragraph in it:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=340369
" Lymphoma is the most common feline neoplasia. In the last 15 y, the
overall incidence of feline lymphoma has decreased, and the relative
frequency of different anatomical forms has changed. These shifts in
the incidence and locations of feline lymphoma may be due, in part, to
the use of commercial vaccines to prevent infection with feline
leukemia virus, a biologic carcinogen responsible for the development
of feline lymphoma. "
Am I mis-reading that, or are they saying that the FELV vaccine is a
biologic carcinogen that causes Lymphoma? This is from the main NIH
website that describes itself as:
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services <http://www.dhhs.gov/>, is the primary
Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research.
Phaewryn
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