Re: Where is the proof that the Hepatitis C (HCV) virus really exists? (same goes for HIV, the aids retrovirus)

 Are you familiar with the works of some scientists who attest that HCV and HIV do NOT exist?

I have heard these claims before, but I disagree.  How could they have produced electron microscope images of these viruses without isolating the viruses?:

http://wiki.verkata.com/en/wiki/Hepatitis_C_virus

Electron micrograph of Hepatitis C virus produced in cell culture. Scale: black bar = 50 nanometres 
Virus classification 

http://knol.google.com/k/aids#

Figure: Mature HIV viruses budding from a cell as seen through                                                                    electron microscopy (from Public Health Image Library)

Same with genetic sequencing of these viruses.

<< Hepatitis-C virus was never a reality or even an artefact, only an invention. After the riddle around Hepatitis-B virus (HBV) - still "not vailable for experiments" - was set so the general public had the impression the Hep-B antibody test really detects antibodies formed in reaction to infection with HBV (and the vaccination programme against it wa sestablished), innovative scientists filled the gap in explaining hepatitis without antibodies against hepatitis-A virus (HAV) and HBV as "a viral non-A non-B Hepatitis"

There is also hepatitis D, E, F, and G.  So how does he explain these?  On the other hand other than electron microscope there is NO  way to confirm the presence of any hepatitis virus.  Antibody testing and polymerase chain reaction (PCR, viral load) do not prove the presence of or activity of any virus.

And there numerous causes of hepatitis including hepatitis viruses, herpes viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites, pharmaceutical drugs, certain chemicals such as carbon tetrachloride, trauma, autoimmunity, etc.