Virology 2013 Lecture #25 - XMRV
Channel: MicrobeTV
Date: 02/05/2013

A paradigm for pathogen de-discovery. How the retrovirus XMRV was discovered, thought to be associated with prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome, and then shown to be a laboratory contaminant generated by passage of a human tumor through nude mice. The moral: trust science, not scientists.