Re:Viral causes for disease (Score 1)

Good post. This needs reiterated in light of how little most people (judging by the posts here, at least) know about cancer. Cancer is not a disease in the classic form, in the sense that medication, your immune system, and many other factors associated with traditional disease have no bearing whatsoever upon the likelihood of developing cancer. There has been many instances where cancer has been directly linked to viral infection, most prominently cervical cancer. Basically, being exposed to anything that alters DNA on a mass scale whether it be viruses, exposure to UV radiation, is going to raise a person's risk for cancer. Research is just recently being applied to explore the viral sources of cancer as well as the environmental.