Researchers at Tulane Medical School have discovered a human retrovirus called the Human Intracisternal A-type Particle, or HIAP.
It is the first A-type retrovirus to have been found in humans.

Research data strongly suggests that this virus is the cause of four well-known autoimmune disorders. These disorders are lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus), Sjögren's syndrome, Graves' disease, and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.

The Autoimmune Disease Virus Assay (ADVA) detects antibodies against HIAP. These antibodies appear in approximately 95% of patients with one or more of those four disorders but in fewer than 2% of healthy individuals. The Company believes that infection by this virus may produce the differing symptoms of the disorders in different patients because of genetic variations in the immune systems of the patients.

The published results of a study of an AIDS drug in Sjögren's patients suggest that anti-retroviral drugs may act against this virus.

If this is true then we can conclude a couple of things.

1) You can combat some autoimmunes with anti viral protocols

2) Viruses have narrow range of metabolic tolerances related to ph and oxygen partial pressure.

3) Stress and trauma lowers immune system and this is why there is a strong relationship between stress and autoimmune exacerbations.

4) This would perfectly explain the clinical findings, epidemiology, and general patterns that we see in autoimmune diseases as they mimick viral patterns.

But if you don't think autoimmune and viruses have anything to do with one another then simply answer these 3 dozen questions that modern medicine cannot seem to answer. Scroll down this page to find these questions and you yourself should try to answer them.

http://americancanceradvocates.com/Autoimmune_Discoveries.html

Thanks

Bret