I have often seen it stated that Bovine Leukemia Virus does not cause cancer in cows. It is a lie. Here is a current published article that reveals the truth about the Leukemia Virus found in most dairy products.
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VeterinaryMedicineInternational
Volume 2012,ArticleID350374,5pages
doi:10.1155/2012/350374
ResearchArticle
UsingaHerdProfileto DetermineAge-SpecificPrevalenceof
Bovine LeukemiaVirusinMichigan DairyHerds
RonaldJ. Erskine,1PaulC.Bartlett,1ToddM.Byrem,2 ChelseaL.Render,1
CatherineFebvay,1 andJessicaT.Houseman2
1DepartmentofLargeAnimalClinicalSciences,MichiganStateUniversity, East Lansing,MI 48824, USA
2AntelBioSystems,DivisionofNorthStarCooperative,Inc., Lansing,MI 48909, USA
Correspondence shouldbe addressedtoRonaldJ.Erskine,erskine@cvm.msu.edu
Received4November 2011;Accepted 31January2012
Academic Editor:HansJ.Nauwynck
Copyright©2012RonaldJ. Erskineetal.Thisis anopen access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution
License,which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,provided the original work is properly
cited.
Enzootic bovine leukosis is a contagious disease of cattle caused by the retrovirus, bovine leukemia virus (BLV) and is the most common cause of malignant neoplasm in cattle.
What is a malignant neoplasm? It is a malignant tumor; metastatic tumor, or in simple language that most can understand, cancer. BLV does indeed cause cancer. The infection rate in diary herds around the world is very high. The virus crosses the specie barrier.
We understand that in cows the virus load is a factor in the development of tumors. In other words, if the virus does infect humans, which it does, and if this virus causes cancer in humans, then the amount of dairy consumed will have an effect on the likely-hood of the development of cancer at an early age.
And if it is possible to be healed of cancer, and it is has been shown to happen, then the virus load is an important consideration. I would think that removing all virus from food and water consumption would be first on the list of things to do.