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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-10-07 12:08 AM
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Of Mice and breast cancer
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HUMAN BREAST CANCER LINKED TO INFECTED MICE SAYS STUDY

January 19, 2000

Can cancer develop from a virus and can humans catch these diseases from other animals? In an article linking breast cancer to mice, these provocative questions are raised in the January 19th issue of the British Journal of Cancer.

In the article, "Breast Cancer Incidence Highest in the Range of One Species of House Mouse, Mus Domesticus," the authors asserted that humans acquire the mouse mammary tumor virus from mice which sometimes leads to human breast cancer, a disease which claims the lives of over 40,000 women each year in the U.S. They pointed to studies that show a similar viral sequence between human breast cancer and mouse mammary tumor virus.

What got me was THIS PART

And, in a disturbing comment about our food supply, the authors state, "The existence of regulatory food standards allowing up to two pellets of rodent excreta per pint of wheat confirm the presence of mice in the modern human food chain."


http://www.instadv.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=425

Read page 2 scroll down Mouse droppings in food is LEGAL
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/foodfilth2.html
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ingac70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-10-07 12:11 AM
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1. If this is true, I haven't much longer...
Edited on Thu May-10-07 12:12 AM by ingac70
My house was overrun with mice this past winter. Took me a while to get rid of 'em. Little bastards.
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