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...prime suspects in several other kinds of malignancies. Just last week Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., announced that he and his team had isolated a new virus that may cause certain kinds of lymphoma and may even play a role in a chronic fatigue illness that seems to strike adults. One prominent virologist, Dr. William Haseltine of Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, ventures that "at least 25% of human cancers are caused by viruses." Viruses may even initiate so- called autoimmune diseases by tricking the immune system into attacking its own body tissue...
...infected as infants, as many newborns in China, Southeast Asia and Africa are, almost always become lifelong carriers. "The virus doesn't do much damage for a long time," says Jesse Summers of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, "but then, after 20 or 30 years, chronic liver problems develop." Papillomaviruses, which cause warts, may also take up permanent residence in the body, biding their time in skin cells...
Many of these chronic viruses are now being linked to cancer. A landmark study conducted in Taiwan between 1975 and 1978 by Dr. R. Palmer Beasley, now at the University of California, San Francisco, found a striking connection between chronic hepatitis B infection and liver cancer, a leading killer in the Third World. "Someone infected with hepatitis B has 100 times the normal risk of developing liver cancer," says Beasley, "and that's being conservative." The Epstein-Barr virus has been associated with a couple of types of cancer. In Central Africa and New Guinea, it has been linked...
Blood clots can cause a variety of ailments, ranging from chronic shortness of breath to heart attacks...
...knew I'd win a million, for some psychic reason," said Chronic Loser Terry Garrett, 39, a former heroin addict with a long arrest sheet. Sure enough, Garrett's number came up in the million-dollar spin of the California lottery last month, guaranteeing him $40,000 a year for the next 20 years. (The state withheld $200,000 for taxes.) Garrett, however, did not predict the sorry sequel to his story...