Plague Quotes

“Abraham Lincoln’s purported remark to Harriet Beecher Stowe, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!”
― Kent Heckenlively, Plague: One Scientist's Intrepid Search for the Truth about Human Retroviruses and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Autism, and Other Diseases

“Could many cases of cancer be the consequence of a decades-long retroviral infection? The implications of this would be mind-boggling, shifting at least some cancer research into the field of infectious disease.”
― Kent Heckenlively, Plague: One Scientist's Intrepid Search for the Truth about Human Retroviruses and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Autism, and Other Diseases

“Given a healthy immune response and no other complicating factors, it seemed this retrovirus could live in many men for years and even decades without causing any noticeable problems. But as the men aged, and the functions of their immune system started to break down, the retrovirus might begin the chain of events that led to prostate cancer.”
― Kent Heckenlively, Plague: One Scientist's Intrepid Search for the Truth about Human Retroviruses and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Autism, and Other Diseases

“CpG islands, they’re very high, density of guanine and”
― Kent Heckenlively, Plague: One Scientist's Intrepid Search for the Truth about Human Retroviruses and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Autism, and Other Diseases