(March 28, 2012 at 8:12 am)Welsh cake Wrote: My dad even speculated once that cancer may be caused by a faulty virus - a virus with a damaged genome that instead of replicating within a host cell nucleus inside us, normally making more viruses, goes haywire.
The damaged viral RNA screws up the cell which mutates and causes it to divide and grow uncontrollably.
Of course, he could never prove it, its already nearly impossible to prove what causes any specific type of cancer in any individual today.
He wasn't too far from the mark mate. Many "ailments" are being found to have viral and mycoplasmic origins. The rest ...as they say ...is history.
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