If you are really interested please read:

www.virusmyth.com/aids/data2/ahrecom.htm  

And yes, alcohol, cigarettes, air pollution, water pollution, heavy metal intoxications, malnutrition, junk food, the indiscriminate use of chemical drugs like antibiotics, etc....in other words TOXICITY and DEFICIENCIES, make it much easier for you to get the disease, yes! And then specially through transfusions. Here is a small extract of Dr. Lanka´s interview where he talks about it:

I also met Professor Alfred Hässig of Switzerland. He founded Swiss blood-donation system and was one of the first to take out products from the blood in order to make plasma to treat chronic disease. By becoming a colleague and a very close friend of his by now, I learned a great deal about the whole blood-producing industry and the criminal energy behind it. In March of 1996 in Berne [capital of Switzerland], Hässig, Kremer and I met for the first time. 

It became clear, also, what's happening in the field of hepatitis. They are not dealing with a virus. Of course, there's a possibility to enrich certain kinds of proteins in blood products, which then cause severe autoimmune reactions, but only in very stressed-out people, never in non-stressed people. When they learned to take out these proteins from the blood products, or dilute them, there are not hepatic problems anymore. I learned this through him.

Zenger's: Are you saying that all forms of hepatitis are non- infectious, or just some of them?

Dr. Lanka: No, there's no such thing as infectious hepatitis.

Zenger's: So there are no hepatitis viruses, either.

Dr. Lanka: Yes. Hässig was always fighting to make sure that blood products were produced only on the basis of a small pool of donors who were young and healthy. The industry started to produce blood products on the basis of commercial blood donations, using a huge amount of blood samples, pooling them all together in a large pool, because then it was much cheaper to get out all the various kinds of products.

Zenger's: In this country, it gets even worse because blood donations are one of the principal ways homeless people have of staying alive. As a result, we're taking a lot of our blood supply from people in society who have the least healthy lifestyles.

Dr. Lanka: I know all the details. This what I'm going to tell you. Professor Hässig once met the person responsible for the industry to produce industrial blood products, and once, when this person was drunk while visiting the Fiji Islands after a conference in Australia, this person told Professor Hässig that soon they are going to smash the state-owned blood producing units, based on voluntary blood donations, because they're much cheaper producing their blood products because they go into the Third World countries, and they are already there in all the prisons of the dictators in South America and elsewhere. 

When Hässig heard about this, he rang some of his friends -- and, of course, Hässig was the leading person in the blood business -- and at this time there were some non-corrupted people in the WHO (World Health Organization). So, in an emergency meeting, on short notice so the  industry had not time to corrupt the members who decided on these issues, they decided that the position of the WHO would be that it isn't allowed to produce plasma in the Third World, because they would bleed them out.

Now they are bleeding out the poorest of the poor, and they are going to Mexico, near where we are sitting right now. In order to help the commercial blood products industry, the FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] has approved that a single person may give up to 50 units of plasma a year. That means he may drop in two times a week to give blood and liver plasma. And an elephant wouldn't possibly survive that, right? So that's the background, and what they did when all that was in place was they changed the way they were treating hemophiliacs. It started in California.

Up to the year 1969 it was forbidden to give the clotting factors to hemophiliacs unless they had internal bleeding. If they would give them prophylactically, antibodies would be produced because these blood products are highly contaminated. In 1969 the industry started to convince some medical doctors -- and the first one was a woman doctor in California -- to treat hemophiliac patients prophylactically with those clotting factors, and this is how the industry made a lot of money. And, of course, the bodies of the se hemophiliacs made a lot of antibodies against those products, which had been foreseen. They've had to use higher doses of clotting factors ever since, in order to compete with those antibodies, so that those clotting factors actually work. They gradually have to increase the amount they are injecting.

This has been the biggest business in the blood industry ever since. Nobody's speaking about this, but that's why almost all hemophiliacs have come down with hepatitis. If you inject such a high amount of foreign proteins, and all the contaminants, then of course the liver, as the central metabolic organ, is stressed out, resulting in hepatic inflammations. A lot of hemophiliacs died from hepatitis, and it was blamed on nonexistent viruses.

 "..an "endogenous retrovirus" -- a creation of the body's own genetic material that looks and functions partly like a virus, but is not an infection because it comes from the body's own cells."

So the conclusion is that a poor diet, redundant alcohol consumption and a genetic predisposition to the effects of same are the true causes of HCV?

Again there are many causes of hepatitis.  This is because hepatitis is simply inflammation of the liver.

 I have heard these claims before, but I disagree.

Sorry Hv, but how can you disagree with something you have only heard of without a deep study? This forum is called The Truth in Medicine.

How could they have produced electron microscope images of these viruses without isolating the viruses?:

Here´s your answer (for the HIV virus):

www.theperthgroup.com/FAQ/question3.html

and

www.theperthgroup.com/FAQ/question7.html

To address a few of their claims:

3. In no HIV "infected" cultures to date are there particles which fulfil the Gelderblom definition.  That is, that display both principle morphological characteristics of retroviruses, that is "a diameter of 100-120nm" AND surfaces which "are studded with projections (spikes, knobs)".

Yes, the "knobs, spikes" have been found:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/news/news/303/

4.  In the only EM study, either in vivo or in vitro, in which suitable controls were used and in which extensive blind examination of controls and test material was performed virus particles indistinguishable from "HIV" were foundin 18/20 (90%) of AIDS as well as in 13/15 (88%) of non-AIDS or no risk of AIDS related lymph node enlargements.This led the authors to conclude:  "The presence of such particles do not, by themselves indicate infection with HIV" [7].  Seehere andhere.  Can you distinguish the AIDS from the non-AIDS patient?

Where they are making a mistake here is in thinking that AIDS is a disease, which it is not.  AIDS is a syndrome, which is a group of symptoms.  Therefore there is not a singular cause, and therefore virus WILL NOT be found in all cases of AIDS.  In fact the most common cause of AIDS has nothing to do with a virus, it is drug induced.  The drug AZT and its analogues destroy the bone marrow leading to a collapse of the immune system and thus AIDS.

I have discussed this and the problems with antibody testing numerous times in previous posts.  So I do agree with them as far as the antibody testing, but they are ignoring a lot of other evidence.

Normal cells also possess reverse transcribing enzymes which are not RT.

I noticed that they keep ignoring the fact that the virus has been genetically sequenced.  In order to genetically sequence the virus the virus must first be isolated.  And one fact they have ignored is that the virus has the gene for the production of RT, not just the enzyme.

I wish you got interested in the matter and read at least the links I sent in my initial post. 

I did, but they were not evidence.  They were opinion articles overlooking a lot of evidence.  Although as I said there are some statements I did agree with and had addressed numerous times in previous posts.  For example the fact that HIV cannot cause AIDS under the original definition of AIDS.  The definition of AIDS was changed to fit the virus after Gallo lied about HIV being the cause of AIDS.  This does not mean though that the virus does not exist.

www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2003/07/05/hepatitis_c_epidemic_where_is_the_virus.htm

This is old information I have seen posted before on the AOL boards when I use to post on there.  A lot has been learned since that time.