Incline Village & Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

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DEnlander

 

 

Reference: *START recognizing ME!!!!* by LK Woodruff;

Help ME Circle, 12 June 2007,

who wrote between other things:      

 

 

It is important for all reading this article to remember that the Lake Tahoe

outbreak in the '80's appears, in retrospect, to have actually been yet

another ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) outbreak. And that USA CDC staff then

CHOSE to ignore that illness and it's decades-long corroborating

documentation, and instead decided to say they were seeing a new, emerging

illness...which

they named it 'CFS'.

 

See for the whole article:

http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0706b & L=co-cure & T=0 & P=3428

 

 

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Unfortunately the Incline Village patients were not reported in the context

that they suffered from a known disease. A disease that Melvin Ramsay reported

previously in 1955. His work at the Royal Free Hospital in London resulted in

the term Myalgic

Encephalomyelitis. 

 

If the correlation would have been made with this work, the outbreak may have

received more consideration.

 

However the doctors in this small tucked away ski village, a remote place

called Incline Village, were not in contact with a medical library and thought,

or wished to think, they had discovered a new disease.

 

Unfortunately, sadly, they have never even now recognized Ramsay and his

salutary work.

 

 

Derek Enlander MD

New York

 

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