Yep! Hepatitis in Dogs! (Latin for dog is: Canus Lupus). Also, Hepatitis in cats too! Did you think that only
humans had problems with their livers? Any living organism that has a liver has a potential to have problems
with that liver. If the liver gets infected, or inflamed, then a Hepatitis occurs. Were you more like Kevin and
really never gave "animal Hepatitis" much thought? After locating the three exactly similar government
documents describing Adenoviruses, Kevin had come to another dead-end following the Adenovirus trail. The entire process had been like his military career, hurry up and wait! Everywhere he looked on the internet for Adenoviruses there was nothing to be found. He reasoned that the government that created the Internet,
certainly could control it, if it wanted to. No Adenovirus, meant just that! No Adenovirus! The only place he
found when searching for Adenovirus was Quantum Biotech. Which was strategically located across the
Canadian border. Of course, conveniently or safely out of U.S. jurisdiction, and governmental regulations.
Kevin kept seeing many animal research URL's skip past his screen, during his nightly searches. He would
stop and scan the web page, then move on to other more important looking pages. One night he thought,
"what if I check out the animal research community? Maybe there would be less guidelines, and fewer
restrictions." he contemplated. "In fact, I'll look outside the USA for animal research!" Kevin proclaimed
proudly to himself.

The 19th Century Austrian monk, Gergor Johann Mendel (1822-84), was noted for his experimental work on
heredity. In the 1860's he grew, and studied, pea plants in the small mountain side garden of the Brno
Augustinian Monastery. Today, we know him as the father of Genetics. His Mendelian Charts originated from
Mendel's own conclusions. Basically summarized, the Medelian System states that, "an inherited characteristic is determined by the combination of two hereditary units". He published his works in 1866, and they were laughed at and largely ignored until the early 1900's - long after his death. Gergor Mendel coined the phrases "Dominant" and "Recessive" traits. Dominant, referring to a trait that would consistently prevail over the others. The experts said he was wrong! The church said he was wrong! His heart and mind knew he was right!

"Ladies and Gentleman, Ladies and Gentleman!" your spouse announces with both hands held high and
waving back and forth in the air. "If I could have your attention please!" they shout to be heard over the unruly mob of journalists, reporters and TV camera crews. The small Alberta spruces you planted, on either side of the front walkway last spring, have been long trampled. Crushed to death by inconsiderate media people "looking for a story". You live on the end of a neatly trimmed cul-de-sac (french word = dead end). Twenty five miles north of Boston, in Cape Ann. You grew up in Salem, Mass. of 1600's witchcraft fame and lore. Also where Hawthorne wrote about his "House of Seven Gables", and the "Scarlet Letter". You live in a large two- floor, 1825, Neo Classical Federal style Manor house, with antique brick facing and a slate roof. Your yard includes greenhouses, two pools, five fountains, two tennis courts and of course your own personal riding stables and grounds. You glady commute the rigorous 45 minutes it takes to travel to Harvard, in downtown Boston. You do it because it is well worth it when you get home! The new Porsche helps too! Of course your spouse works part-time as a "World Class Model." Money and fame have always come easy to you all of your life! Why let it stop now? Right?

The media crushes your expensive, fine fescue, lawn and quickly they begin stringing transmission wires
across your front porch. Their rights extend past the tip of your nose. They rummage through your filthy trash
and begin to follow and subtly harass your wife and children. There are no limits to be found, in the search for the truth, justice and the American Century!! "As I told you all over the phone", your spouse begins again. "The Doctor has been taken prisoner by Agents under the OATEOF Director!" (Of All Things Evil Of Course). "The Director has, in the past, made implied threats that this may be highly reasonable for reasons of National
Security!", your spouse reads from a prepared text that you have written just two days earlier. "Is THE Doctor
Safe?" "Where IS the Doctor?" questions start fly by your spouse like misfired bullets. "Have YOU been in
touch with THE Doctor?". Your spouse turns and flees into your home. Peppered by questions as they slam
the door shut. WHAM! As they run into your once warm and serene home, two reporters greet your spouse
inside. "Will the Doctor be CALLING?" one asks. "Does the Doctor KNOW anything?" an intelligent reporter
screams through the front window pane. "GET OUT!" they are told!

Mark arrived extra early the following monday morning for his appointment with the Gastro Doctor. As he
arrived Mark was informed, "Oh you'll have to call later this week, then come back later next week again". The young lady plastered a fake smile on her heavily painted face, she then slammed the small glass window
closed. Next! The following Thursday he called for his serology and blood report. Impatiently he was told, "I'm
sorry, but we can't give that information out over the telephone!" CLICK. Welcome to the VA Mark! They are
in the business of delay and deny! Mark was craftier than the VA though. He thought hard for a moment about
the girl he spoke with last week that took his blood. "What WAS her name?" he strained to remember.
"STACY!, no, TRACY! That's it Tracy!" he yelled to Toni in the next room.

"Hello? Is Tracy there?" Mark asked with a different sounding voice. "Hello?" a female voice replied back
through the phone. "Tracy?" Mark asked with uncertainty. "Yes!" Tracy responded. "I met you last week. You
took some blood from me and we talked about the guy testing only on Wednesdays with the HCV blood.
Remember me?" Mark hoped she would. "Oh Yeah! Sure! I remember you! How are you doing?" she inquired
with a friendly tone. "Ok, I guess. I called for my blood results and they said they weren't sure if they were in
yet or not." Mark fudged. "Just a moment" she said, after taking all the relevant information down. "Yep! Got
it right here! You have a pen and paper?" She asked. "Yea" Mark replied. "HBV negative and HCV negative"
she read out loud. "What about HAV?" Mark insisted. "Oh! Nope all clear!" She offered innocently. "Are you
saying that the VA says, that, I don't have Hepatitis A, B or C?" Mark asked with total disbelief. "That's right!"
she confessed. Mark hung up the telephone and looked down at his recent civilian blood tests that said; HAV - Positive; HBV - Positive; HCV - Positive! The VA Hospital, located in Northport, New York, reported
approximately 250 cases of HCV in 1996. The following year, 1997, they reported almost 125 cases of HCV. Now
we know why the VA rates are dropping! Nice touch fellas! No one will ever notice! If it's not there, it doesn't
exist! Right boys and girls?

"Get in that van!" you are ordered. Your head is pushed roughly into a heavy steel beam on the van's floor. You fall unconscious into the bed of the truck with your hands cuffed behind your back. The Director's hired
hologins wrestle your feet and legs into the van and close the rear doors firmly shut! SLAM! You awake injured in a holding cell many hours later. Your body has been beaten badly, but you have not spoken a word. You lay face up on a crude Army surplus sleeping cot and stare at the ceiling tiles for a moment to get your bearings. "Were am I?" you wonder. Just then a click is heard and the door opens widely. Three men walk in the cell wearing white lab coats over expensively tailored suits. "Good evening Doctor!" they greet you with. "Evening! Where am I?" you ask. "Didn't anyone tell you?" the eldest gentleman asks with a turn off the head slightly. "No!" you say, as you get to you feet. "Well then Doctor! Let me be the first to welcome you to the FDA's Viral Research Center, Ames Iowa. "What? Where? FDA! What's going on here? you demand, as you come to your feet. As you stand up quickly, you blackout and collapse hard to the cement floor. "Ok! Move!" are the last words you remember barely hearing. "Get the Doctor in the Van! Immediately!" The senior person directs the other two "white coats" to load your crumpled body back into the waiting van.

What we see is not always what is really there. Let us use light rays from the sun as an example. They
illuminate our world and warm our days. Their energy is converted to sugars by plants using Co2 and water.
The sugar is used to build plant cell walls and as a source of stored energy. The sun's energy that is stored
in plants is passed along when we eat an animal that is in our food chain. We can not digest the plant's sugar
cellulose, however a cow can. They do this as all ruminants do, by allowing bacteria to live in their stomachs.
Termites can not digest wood (cellulose) without Euglena bacteria in their stomachs. Things are not what they appear to be. Light can be made to do some pretty weird things.

In 1520 when Ferdinand Magellan sailed along the east cost of South America he watched as the land appeared to glow with fire in the distance. Far above his head he observed the twinkling stars each evening, and wrote in detail about what he saw. Of particular interest to him were two small "clouds", as he noted, that never changed their positions in the heavens. Over the next few months he watched as they remained in exactly the same place. He concluded that they were not clouds at all, but heavenly objects that were much further out in the sky. Almost 500 years later we call those celestial objects "The Magellanic Clouds". They are located perpendicular to the axis of our own Milky Way Galaxy. They are very small galaxies that are near each other and are considered to be part of our much larger Milky Way system. They are like small branches or "variants" of the larger Milky Way Galaxy. They appear to be fragments that have escaped our Milky Way. Things are not what they seem to be.

If we look forward through space telescopes, we look are actually looking back through the Universe's time
window. The farther we see ahead with telescopes, the further back in time we are looking! Go far enough back in time and you will run into the Big Bang! The Bang began as a stone in a motionless pond, rippling outward with time. Light, we know, travels at an incredible 186,000 miles per second. It takes the sun's light rays almost eight minutes to travel the scant 93 million mile distance from the sun to the earth's surface. The next closest galaxy to the Milky way is the "Andromeda" galaxy - two million light years away. The nearest star in our own galaxy to us is, "Alpha Century" - one light year away. The closet planet to us in the solar system is Venus, A six month solar journey, and the moon's 235,000 miles can be covered in just three earth days by a space craft. Technology and science tell us all this.

Light traveling in a vacuum can travel unimpeded for infinity. This follows Newton's Laws of Physics, A body
in motion tends to stay in motion and a body at rest tends to stay at rest. Ever since Germany's Max Planck
proposed his "Duality of Matter" theory, where photons (light parcels) are treated as both a particle mass AND as a light wave, experts assumed that light traveled as a "whole beam". Not as individual particles (photons), as is now realized to be the case. The proof that light is a group of waves (the electro magnetic spectrum - or Big Bang ripple) can be demonstrated by using a prism to refract sun light as a rainbow on the wall. Sun light can be like viruses. They travel as one, but are really different colored viruses. When you walk outside in urban New York City and stroll into sunny Central Park, you do not see yellow sunlight, or blue sunlight. But, it is there! It is all around you. It is like religion and God. Just because you do not see them, that does not mean they are not there. To see all the different colored lights in sun light rays, just use a prism! Yellow light travels disguised and mixed as sun light rays. Yellow HCV, travels as inconspicuous old HBV. Adenovirus is the prism that helps it break out! (YF/HBV + Adenovirus = HCV + old HBV) Got it?

When Kevin looked under "Animal Research" he instantly found articles from all over the world about
"Adenoviruses". For an evening he combed and used search engines to sort through the numerous web pages. He then spotted what he was looking for! Kevin had earlier learned that Adenoviruses were very dangerous, but still he did not know what they were used exactly for! Or where they originated from. He rapidly thought "Were they a man-made virus? What virus family are they in? Why no information on the internet?" Now he saw an article about them being used in Canine Research. Apparently, they are used to treat Hepatitis in Dogs! "Adenovirus as a treatment for the liver problems?" Kevin asked himself. It appears that the Adenovirus can cause an initial immunological response that builds a future defense towards hepatitis. In twenty to thirty years, the life of the dog is not an issue anymore. But with HCV, your life still is.

Kevin read more information about the liver and it's amazing immune response system. It was a vast and
complex body of knowledge! Hepatocytes produce gamma globulin (Interferon) molecules. Liver Infections
accelerate the production of Gamma Globulins. Gamma Globulin production begins to accelerate when
stimulated by a foreign (DNA or RNA) virus that has invaded the cell. At one of the construction sites
(Ribosome), in the Hepatocyte journey we took in Chapter 8, the Messenger RNA workers were busy building
Gamma molecules. So, any liver can get sick. Even a Dog's liver! Just like the Sun's light rays, things are not
always what they appear to be.

In the next chapter we will follow the history of Microbiology, Slide-Staining, Syphilis, Antigens, and of course, Antibodies. We will journey with them from the Ribosome construction site to their specific molecular binding site! We will travel back through time and venture over world geography. From Napoleon's Army in Moscow to Poisonous Snakes and Degas in Morocco!