Thanks for the links, very interesting.
Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), which is also a cancer, actually has two different forms. There is a bacterial form as well as a viral form. The viral form is caused from the virus human herpes virus type 8 (HHV8), also known as Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpes virus (KSHV).
This fact was able to prove that AIDS did not originate in Africa. During the early years of AIDS it was found that the form of KS found in Africa was not showing up in the US. But the form of KS found in the US was showing up in Africa, showing a movement of AIDS from the US to Africa, not the other way around.
Cancer viruses have been known since 1910 with the discovery of the Rous sarcoma virus. Since then many cancers have been linked to microbes, in particular viruses. For example there is HHV8 linked to KS, human T cell leukemia/lymphoma viruses 1 through 4 linked to various leukemias and lymphomas in humans, Epstein Barre virus (EBV)causes B cell lymphoma, human papilloma virus (HPV) that causes cervical, breast, prostate, skin, and nasopharyngeal cancers, simian virus type 40 that contaminated the polio vaccines of the 60s causes brain, bone, thyroid, and lymphatic cancers as well as mesothelioma, herpes viruses can cause liver cancer....
I believe that at least 90% of human cancers have a viral origin. The remainder being caused from bacteria, fungi,
parasites (very rare), radiation, and carcinogens. In a report a while back in one of the
Science magazines found that EVERY oncogene (genes that cause cancer) that had ever been found were viral genes, and that no human oncogene had ever been found. In other words, they have never found a hereditary cancer in humans. So all this crap telling people that if cancer runs in their family is primarily to scare the people in to unnecessary tests and treatments.
I was posting on the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society board a while back and I got in to a discussion where I mentioned the viral origin of both leukemias and lymphomas. One poster made a comment about I should tell his doctor that since his doctor had never heard of leukemia/lymphoma viruses. So I told him to find a new doctor since these viruses have been well known in medicine for over 25 years. Then I went to Medline and pulled up all sorts of abstracts on human leukemia and lymphoma viruses. Next thing I know I was not only banned from the board, but all of my messages were completely erased, and the posts calling me a quack were left up even though this was in direct violation of their posting policies. They were scarred of my posts because to admit that the cause of these cancers is known means that they have to admit that they are easily cured and therefore they would lose all their donations they were using to pay their salaries and to suppress the facts.