Our Friend, The Virus

Not just any virus, of course, a very special little virus that goes by the abbreviation AAV-2.

What’s so special about it?

"Our results suggest that adeno-associated virus type 2, which infects the majority of the population but has no known ill effects, kills multiple types of cancer cells yet has no effect on healthy cells," said Craig Meyers, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the Penn State College of Medicine in Pennsylvania.

"We believe that AAV-2 recognizes that the cancer cells are abnormal and destroys them. This suggests that AAV-2 has great potential to be developed as an anti-cancer agent," Meyers said in a statement.

It wipes out HPV or Human Pappiloma Virus cells, HPV being a leading cause of cervical cancer.

The same thing happened with cervical, breast, prostate and squamous cell tumor cells.

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

5 thoughts on “Our Friend, The Virus”

  3. Hi Jimmy – Its tim o’brien… do you know where to find info on this. when will this be made available to patients?

  4. I’m afraid that I don’t have any real info beyond what’s in the story. However, Google turns up a bunch of stuff on the virus and cancer.
    CHECK OUT THIS LINK
    Also, the article mentions a professor at the Penn State College of Medicine. His faculty web page including his contact info
    IS HERE.
    Also, there’s a couple of promising looking links
    HERE.
    Hope this helps!

  5. This reminds me of the mitochondrial theory. It will be interesting to see if this goes anywhere in the next few years.

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