Virus Within: The Coming Epidemic

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Summary: The truth will out!
Review: As somebody who has multiple sclerosis and active HHV6, finally a book that shows the truth about HHV6 and its implications in disease, present and future. For too long research into our disease has veered in the wrong direction, concentrating on a rodent model that serves us the SUFFERERS of MS, no good at all. Regush finally gives the lowdown on the the findings of a group of researchers brave enough to seek the truth and not afraid to say it! This book to me answered many questions and made me somewhat sceptical of the agendas of the organizations meant to serve us as they are more willing to fund the rodent than human disease. Public awareness of HHV6 needs to be increased, Regush has written an excellent book which I hope will do just that. Sometimes it takes an honest man, and in Drs Knox and Carrigan we find just that - people who seek the truth. Regush has written a compelling account of a virus that threatens us all, whose implications in human disease is brutal yet we are better for the knowledge of that brutality. Let us hope that with this book and the knowledge the public gain from it, finally the truth will out about HHV6 and finally us with MS, CFS and other related conditions will see our donations to our so called charities finally reach genuine research for a cure and not administrative costs. Terrific book! For ME the millenium started here!

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Summary: Not Worth the paper it is written on
Review: I have just recently found out that I am HHV6 postive with CFIDS and my doctor told me I should read this book to find out more about HHV6. I wondered as I was reading it if my doctor has even read the book!! I found it not helpful at all, in fact it made a person feel like if you have HHV6 that you are doomed to die. The book had very little (and I mean very little) to do with telling you the facts about HHV6, it was written more like a BAD novel, it went into telling you about the Doctors and scientist who where working on the HHV6 virus and their personal problems and lives! I would not reccomend this book to anyone.

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Summary: Sensationalism at its worst
Review: Man, when I bought this book it wasn't what I thought it was. If someone had warned me this was from some of the guys pushing the "HIV does not cause AIDS" following, I would have never picked it up. I had the opportunity to work with the HIV virus for 3 years, and there is no question in my mind that it is a lethal virus that leads to AIDS, which is a syndrome of multiple diseases, cancers, symptoms which occur due to the breakdown of the immune system. There are too many people I've seen who were infected with the HIV who priorly were healthy individuals, who ended up dying from this for me to agree that another "unknown" virus could be responsible for this devastating disease.... If psuedoscience purports that a certain idea or virus is responsible for a great many diverse diseases/syndromes, then it is too good to be true. I also feel like anyone who has a persecution complex like these guys do, that they probably have little in the way of concrete proof. Karen Sadler, Science Education, University of Pittsburgh

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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Review: Recently finished reading "The Virus Within: A Coming Epidemic" by Nichalus Regush and published by Dutton. I recommend this book to everybody. It points out the strong coverup in research in the strong possibility of the role of HHV6 (Human Herpes Virus 6) in AIDS. The established experts are doing everything within their power to squash Nick Regush and his book. Regush is a supurb writer and is the medical reporter for ABC News with 30 years of experience. The book is important and needs to be read. Regush raises many questions that I sure would like some answers to. The book cites detailed references and reads somewhat like the book "And the Band Played On." This book should be required reading for all health care providers and AIDS researchers.

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Summary: informative
Review: The author presents viral research, the researchers, and the health industry in a manner that is informative and interesting for the reader. While the ending somewhat weak it is at least honest-no cure or conclusive proof has been established concerning HHV-6 - the author merely points the reader's interest towards the future.
I have read the book twice and I appreciated the lack of hype both times. Sure, the medical cases were heart wrenching from any perspective but the author used the cases to support the story of the researchers cardigan and knox. These couragous individuals were shown among the others seeking to scientifically study diseases. Maybe regush will publish another book-or cardigan and knox.

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Summary: informative
Review: The author presents viral research, the researchers, and the health industry in a manner that is informative and interesting for the reader. While the ending somewhat weak it is at least honest-no cure or conclusive proof has been established concerning HHV-6 - the author merely points the reader's interest towards the future.
I have read the book twice and I appreciated the lack of hype both times. Sure, the medical cases were heart wrenching from any perspective but the author used the cases to support the story of the researchers cardigan and knox. These couragous individuals were shown among the others seeking to scientifically study diseases. Maybe regush will publish another book-or cardigan and knox.

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Summary: Virus Within
Review: This book may give me my life back. I have researched my illness for eight years now, never giving up though everything I have tried from numerous allopathic specialists to numerous alternative healing practices. I have a virus-like disease (I always get the feverish malaise that precedes a herpes outbreak (I have Type I, thank goodness). Whatever this disease is, it flares up at the slightest stress of any type whatever (time pressure, a fight with my husband, annoyance at our idiotic President and his evil cronies, etc.) and causes me a lot of pain, stiffness and a host of other difficult physical symptoms. It has been diagnosed as fibromyalgia, but that's pretty much beside the point as there is no treatment for fibromyalgia.

Both the science and the writing are excellent in this book. I highly recommend it, even for people who don't have a chronic disease. It was a fascinating detective story and I can't wait to see how it plays out over the next years as this area of science continues to be pursued. If you have any of the chronic diseases listed on the back cover, you can't afford to not read this book. Just just can't afford not to.

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Summary: Virus Within
Review: This book may give me my life back. I have researched my illness for eight years now, never giving up though everything I have tried from numerous allopathic specialists to numerous alternative healing practices. I have a virus-like disease (I always get the feverish malaise that precedes a herpes outbreak (I have Type I, thank goodness). Whatever this disease is, it flares up at the slightest stress of any type whatever (time pressure, a fight with my husband, annoyance at our idiotic President and his evil cronies, etc.) and causes me a lot of pain, stiffness and a host of other difficult physical symptoms. It has been diagnosed as fibromyalgia, but that's pretty much beside the point as there is no treatment for fibromyalgia.

Both the science and the writing are excellent in this book. I highly recommend it, even for people who don't have a chronic disease. It was a fascinating detective story and I can't wait to see how it plays out over the next years as this area of science continues to be pursued. If you have any of the chronic diseases listed on the back cover, you can't afford to not read this book. Just just can't afford not to.

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Summary: An eye-opener and a book to remember!
Review: This is a must buy for those interested in public health. As a man with MS I strongly believe that the viral connection is the way to go to find an answer to our disease. The Virus Within opens the doors of understanding and gives those with MS, CFS, AIDS and other HHV-6 linked diseases an insight into the enemy within. It is a book not only worth buying but worth its weight in gold as a startlingly informational look at the damage viruses can do. The answers are there and I feel assured by the fact that those great scientists are following such a hot lead. I loved the book!

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Summary: Research that breaks boundaries
Review: We are a set of MS webforums that are eager followers of MS research as we badly want a cure! Many of us are HHV-6 active and place our hopes and prayers on the research covered in the Virus Within. It is a great book that breaks boundaries in MS research. For many years little was known of our disease. A diagnosis is bad enough but being diagnosed with the 'unknown' is terrifying. Many of us read Virus Within and saw ourselves as so many things fitted into place. It is a ground breaking book about ground breaking research that we hope will continue until the final answers to the puzzle of our disease are found. Highly recommended!