Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Victory For The Little Guys

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Andrea Whittemore-Goad's chronic fatigue syndrome

prompted her parents to take action

To many people who suffer from the poorly understood illness called

chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a recent study linking the disorder to the

XMRV virus was a victory for the little guys. the study pointed to a physical

cause for an illness that the medical establishment had often snidely

dismissed as psychosomatic. The research could not be ignored: it was published

last month in Science, one of the world’s pickiest and most prestigious

journals. The discovery came, in a sense, from within the patients’ own

ranks:

several of the scientists, including the lead author of the report, worked

for the Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease, a

nonprofit in Reno, Nev., founded recently by the parents of a young woman who

has

the syndrome. And even though the institute was new, it had attracted

collaborators from two high-powered centers, the National Cancer Institute and

the Cleveland Clinic. Retroviruses can cause cancers in animals, and in

humans, they include HIV and a virus that can cause leukemia.

Denise Grady, The New York Times