Subacute Myelo-Optico-Neuropathy (SMON)
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[1996] 'The SMON Fiasco' by Bryan Ellison and Peter Duesberg

Blaming non-infectious diseases on infectious microbes has occurred many times before. ......For fifteen years the syndrome was mismanaged by the Japanese science establishment, where virtually all research efforts were controlled by virus hunters. Ignoring strong evidence to the contrary, researchers continued to assume the syndrome was contagious and searched for one virus after another. Year after year the epidemic grew, despite public health measures to prevent the spread of an infectious agent. And in the end, medical doctors were forced to admit that their treatment had actually caused SMON in the first place. [1996] 'The SMON Fiasco' by Bryan Ellison and Peter Duesberg