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is AD-36 a permanent infection?
is it treatable?
These two issues should be known, but are not in any of the news releases about obesity.
These issues are not in any of the releases because the researchers concerned are still working on these questions. Finding out in the first place that obesity is caused by a virus is an achievement, which is what all the press releases were about.
- Let's not get carried away until there is a peer-reviewed paper in human subjects. Press releases are notorious for promoting "proof" that often does not hold up under peer-review. Not implying that is necessarily the case here, but we should not simply take the press release as proof that their results are solid. Also, they did not show all obesity is caused by a virus, rather they claim to show that the virus can cause fat gain. That's a subtle, but important distinction. --chodges 07:07, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
- Press releases didn't promote proof of anything. Authors did not intend to show that all human obesity is caused by a virus. Nor did they show that a virus can cause fat gain, they showed that it DOES cause fat gain in animals, human cells and human tissue. Implications for human obesity are being researched. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.105.153.73 (talk) 03:15, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
As far as I know there is no proper cure for any viral infection. You have to sit it out, and rely on your body's defense capabilities. Lysine is supposed to strengthen your defenses agains herpes virus, but since Lysine cannot be patented, no company will invest in clinical trials whether it helps against this or other virusses. As it is used in chicken feed, there may be something to it. Not to forget that antibiotics are for bacterial infections only but you may probably argue that supporting the defenses against bacteria may assist the body to fight a simultaneous viral infection.
I had only now heard of this issue and the virus. I am staggered by its link to chickens. I grew up in a place where there was no chicken meat, and no chicken restaurants. People were not obese then. I understand that the virus cannot be the only contributing factor for weight gain and obesity but it and the high consumption of chicken meat these days sure look like something to monitor. 144.136.176.72 (talk) 02:22, 12 March 2012 (UTC)