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The '''1984 Chapel Hill outbreak''' occured in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. ==Newspaper accounts== The Oklahoman (2009) reported: "In the mid-1980s, chronic fatigue syndrome was first identified as a cluster of symptoms in clusters of patients in a few spots in the United States. Dr. [[Charles Lapp]], then a family physician in Raleigh, N.C., ''identified one such outbreak among all the members of the N.C. Symphony Orchestra.'' [emphasis added] Seven remained ill with chronic fatigue. 'Patients started coming to me with persistent [[flu-like symptoms|flulike symptoms]],' said Lapp, now medical director of Hunter-Hopkins Center in Charlotte, N.C. 'They would work one day and have to sleep for two. Perfectly well-adjusted people became disabled almost overnight.'<ref name="oklahomanMay5"/> By the time Lapp notified the federal [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] about his findings, the agency had heard similar stories from Lake Tahoe and Rochester, N.Y."<ref name="oklahomanMay5">{{Cite news |url =https://www.oklahoman.com/story/lifestyle/health-fitness/2009/05/05/cause-of-illness-remains-unknown/61419195007/ | title = Cause of illness remains unknown | first = Karen | last = Garloch| publisher = The Oklahoman | date = May 5, 2009 | access-date = 2022-04-14}}</ref> ==Medical texts== "... a series of studies at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Center focused on an apparent outbreak of a fatiguing illness involving members of a symphony orchestra in North Carolina (Grufferman et al.,1988; Eby et al., 1989). The studies documented four cases of cancer (B-cell non-Hodgkins's lymphoma, glioblastoma multiforme, acinic cell carcinoma, and breast cancer) among the orchestra members and close contacts. The cancer cases had lower levels of activity, as compared to controls, of natural killer cells, a set of white blood cells that can directly kill cancer cells."<ref name="Patarca-Monterob, 2004">{{Cite book | last = Patarca-Montero | author-link = Roberto Patarca-Montero | title = Medical Etiology, Assessment, and Treatment of Chronic Fatigue and Malaise: Clinical Differentiation and Intervention; What Does the Research Say? | date =Oct 29, 2004 | first = Roberto | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=pZKvejG4VngC&dq=Epidemic+++amongst+++members+++of++The++North+++Carolina+++Symphony++Orchestra.&source=gbs_navlinks_s | volume = |chapter=|edition=1st|isbn=0789021951| publisher = CRC Press| pages = 83-84|location=Binghamton, NY}}</ref> ==See also== *[[List of myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome outbreaks|List of outbreaks]] ==Learn more== ==References== {{Reflist}} [[Category:History]] [[Category:Outbreaks]] [[Category:Outbreaks in the 1980s]] [[Category:Outbreaks in the United States of America]]
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