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Originally Posted by meeera
I note that the headline doesn't say that the HSV found was type I, which most commonly causes cold sores on the mouth - an infection found in over half the popuation. Nor does the piece mention how many other books carried miniscule traces of HSV. Nor does it mention where this work was published - I can't find anything on Pubmed.
You should see what can be cultured from your kitchen sink...
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Originally Posted by Istvan diVega
Nothing at all out of the ordinary about those results I would have thought. We're all teeming with viruses and bacteria and a very significant proportion of most populations use drugs, so of course it'll all be found on anything and everything we handle. I'd have been astounded if they'd found nothing.
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Spot on. This article is from the Daily Mail in the UK, which means it has take a tiny grain of truth, linked it to something popular and blown it up into a big scare story - which in the end is pretty much nonsense. If they could have, they'd have linked second hand books to causing cancer..... they've done it with everything else then can think of.
