n the case of artherosclerosis would amount to decades of dead end research and the end to the cash cow of grants many researchers in that field have come accustomed to (Ewald 101).How could what appears to be the obvious, as in Barry Marshall’s research .The causation of chronic diseases be so easily dismissed even there was evidence of curing peptic ulcers with antibiotics in the late 1940’s at Mount Sinai and Manhattans New York Hospital. It may be attributed to the fact that an infectious cause for disease was being considered to be old school medicine with the discovery of DNA in 1953. Medical Researchers now believed that unravel the mystery of Human disease by studying the human biological building blocks. Indeed genes that cause human disease were found. This information at first was misleading, often the genes found among human DNA that caused chronic disease were not human genes at all. The structures that these genes encoded were not human building blocks but molecular devices of manipulation used by invading organisms (Ewald 105). Virologist Robert Yolken of john Hopkins Medical School and Psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey of the National Alliance of the Mentally Ill Research Institute sampled cerebrospinal fluid from individuals with recent onset Schizophrenia, 29%exhibited signs of a particular family of retrovirus known as Human Endogenous Retrovirus W, the same was found in the brain tissue of deceased schizophrenics, and in the control group of healthy individuals. Torrey believes that the HERV-W may lie dormant in all humans but somehow is triggered by another viral infection and when triggered leads to schizophrenia (Gewolb). The list of diseases, cancers, epilepsy and mental disorders that are believed to be caused by infections keeps growing every year and the scientific and medical communities are slowly accepting the research as fact. But what appears to be moving even more slowly is research that would in...
