Here's my best guess about what your friends heard. I've done an
exhaustive search of the Australian media web sites, Pub Med, sites
for science press releases and Google News.

Living Cell Technologies in Australia just released a press release
about their new study published in the Journal of Clinical
Microbiology. Here's the abstract.

This study represents a long-term follow-up of human patients
receiving pig islet xenotransplantation. Eighteen patients had been
monitored for up to 9 years for potentially xenotic pig viruses: pig
endogenous retrovirus, pig cytomegalovirus, pig lymphotropic
herpesvirus, and pig circovirus type 2. No evidence of viral infection
was found.

The same company also has a new study that is coming out in the
November NeuroReport which isn't online yet nor in PubMed but based on
information on the LCT's web site, this involves neuroprotection and a
toxin model of Huntington's Disease (a poison that mimics the effects
of HD) in rats. There was 86 percent less damage to the brain with
the rats who had the company's proprietary neuroprotection technology.

I would bet that someone heard these two press releases announced.

I am very hopeful about the progress with the research but I don't
think we know what the cure is just yet.

Marsha Miller


--- In huntingtonsdiseasesupportclub@yahoogroups.com,
wicked_littlewitch <no_reply@y...> wrote:
>
> Hello, I am an Australian living in American. I am HD+ I have no
> signs at this stage. I was tested 7 years ago. Last night at 2 am
US
> time I received a phone call from family in Australia. On their
News
> was a new's flash that scientist had found a cure for HD. Testing
was
> on Pigs. They said they had reversed the repeat gene in at least
80%
> for full recovery. I have searched online for any updated
> information. Does anyone knows anything? 5th NOV.