Getting bovine leukemia virus from meat and milk (or blood transfusions from those who eat meat or milk) is a risk factor for cancer.
In 2015, researchers in California found Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) spliced into the DNA of human breast cancer tumors from mastectomies. The virus was found to be significantly higher in normal breast tissue taken from breast reduction surgery. Based on this difference, they estimated that up to 37% of breast cancer cases could be attributed to exposure to BLV, possibly through consumer milk or meat of sick animals.
In response to this soda, there was more meat and milk worried on consumer confidence from consumer cancer. But scientifically, the priority of the research was to face the question: Can the California results be replicated? The answer, it turns out, was yes. They were has been repeated among Iranian women. Repetition in Brazil. In Australia, link was even stronger. In Texas, they found the same thing. Women diagnosed with breast cancer found that the probability of bovine leukemia virus DNA in their breast tissue is much higher than that of women without cancer, the relative risk was calculated at 51.82%, which indicates that this meat and milk virus may be responsible for at least half of the cases of breast cancer among women in Texas that they studied.
In total, six of the eight studies have been completed to date found virus in human breast tissues, which “strongly suggests that BLV infects humans and that breasts may be the target of infection.” Four out of five studies that compared infection rates in cancer with normal breast tissue showed that the probability of detecting the virus in tumors was four times higher on average. How does this compare to other breast cancer risk factors? If you continue to take hormone replacement for five years, you can increase your risk of breast cancer by 30%. If you take birth control pills for more than ten years, your risk can increase by 40%. If you are obese as an adult, your risk may increase by 60%. Having a first-degree relative with breast cancer can double your risk. But infecting your breast with bovine leukemia virus can quadruple your risk, as you can see below and at 2:16 in my video. Breast cancer and bovine leukemia virus in meat and milk.
The only risk factors were stronger than BLV infection having A BRCA gene mutation, such as Angelina Jolie, or high doses of ionizing radiation, such as to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, like Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
Besides confirmation, a study suggested Older patients were more likely to test positive for bovine leukemia virus. This means that if BLV is due to exposure to dairy products and meat. The older we get, the more we eat and the more chance we have of getting infected over time. Researchers too discovered that the virus comes first, before the diagnosis of cancer; they found it was present in some breast tissue 3 to 10 years before cancer developed. “This argues against the idea of the virus attacking cells that are already malignant,” and dispels the theory that the virus might then somehow become involved in the cancer. Could this explain the consistent finding that breast cancer tissue is more likely to be infected? Again, the data showed no virus appeared first come Although the review does not provide absolute proof that BLV causes breast cancer, based on the best balance of evidence, BLV infection is indeed a risk factor for breast cancer.
The latest revelation is that BLV was now found also in human blood. This has a number of potential consequences. For example, blood banks do not do this screen for that So you can get it from eating meat or milk, as well as from getting blood from someone who has eaten meat or milk. This could also mean that BLV can reason leukemia in humans. It does in chimpanzees. Two newborn chimpanzees were fed natural BLV-infected cows’ milk, and both died of leukemia. We didn’t even know chimpanzees could get leukemia. This clearly suggests the possibility of transmission or induction of leukemia through consumption of milk from BLV-infected cows or blood-borne spread. to take virus to other organs. In cattle, the virus causes blood cancer, but that may only be because dairy cattle are slaughtered and turned into hamburgers when they are young, so they may not have had time to grow tumors in other organs.
What kind of worried Should we be talking about bovine leukemia virus? “It’s not clear if that’s good news or bad news.” If future studies show that BLV causes breast cancer in humans, there will be significant implications for the dairy and livestock industry. But that means we can do something about it. Perhaps measures should be taken now to eliminate livestock diseases, rather than waiting for the final verdict. Twenty one states already was eliminated BLV from your dairy cattle. In contrast, the prevalence of BLV is increasing in the United States. If the industries are not trying to eliminate the disease, then at least they can work eliminate some practices that spread disease among animals.
is BLV to spread through blood through contaminated needles, saws or piercing horns, gophers, hoof knives, tattoo pliers, nose pliers and other agricultural trade tools. Although “given the emerging data on BLV in human breast cancer, it is reasonable to encourage elimination of BLV in livestock, especially in the dairy industry. Hope it helps anyway cut back the scourge of breast cancer.
Dr.’s comment
If you missed the previous video, check it out Bovine leukemia virus as a cause of breast cancer.
Avoiding infectious risks such as BLV is another advantage of animal-free meat preparation. Watch my video Effects of cultured meat on human health: food safety.
