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==Postviral fatigue syndrome and ME/CFS== [[File:COVID-19_and_ME-CFS.png|thumb|right|alt=COVID-19 and ME/CFS. "It's quite likely that some people will be developing a post-viral fatigue syndrome, which may then lead into an ME/CFS-like illness." - [[Charles Shepherd]], M.E. Association]] [[Myalgic encephalomyelitis]], better known as ME, is a neurological disease that commonly begins after a virus, although other possible triggers include bacterial infections, injuries, surgery and other events.<ref name="ICC2011primer" /><ref name="fukuda1994" /><ref name="icd10" /> Some researchers and some patients use the term [[chronic fatigue syndrome]] (CFS), or [[ME/CFS]] to refer to ME, although CFS has different diagnostic criteria.<ref name="canadianconsensus-CCC" /><ref name="ICC2011primer" /><ref name="fukuda1994" /> The older term [[Postviral fatigue syndrome]] (PVFS) is rarely used, although the [[World Health Organization]] recognize PVFS, ME, and CFS using the same diagnostic code. Some countries including the [[United States]], deviate from this.<ref name="icd10">{{Cite web|url=https://icd.who.int/browse10/2016/en#/G93| title = ICD-10: Version 2016 | last = World Health Organization|website=[[World Health Organization]] | author-link = World Health Organization}}</ref><ref name="icd10-us">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd/icd10cm.htm | last = Centers for Disease Control| title = ICD-10-CM|website=[[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] | author-link = Centers for Disease Control | date = |access-date=Apr 17, 2020 | first = |archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=}}</ref> {{Quote box| title = PVFS (post-viral fatigue syndrome)|quote=This term was introduced during the eariy 1980s in Britain as an alternative to ME. It remains a useful description for anyone whose illness can clearly be traced back to an acute viral infection. The drawback to PVFS is that it cannot be used to describe cases where some other factor (e.g. vaccination or pesticide) acted as the principal trigger.<ref name="Livingwithme" />|source=Dr Charles Shepherd, [[Living with M.E.]] (2008)}} Moldofsky et al. (2011) conducted a long term follow up of 21 SARS survivors in Toronto, Canada, all of who remained too ill to return to work, and concluded that that ''chronic post-SARS'' was similar to [[fibromyalgia]].<ref name="Moldofsky2011" /> Lam et al. (2009) conducted a much larger long term follow-up of SARS survivors in Hong Kong, and reported that 27% had [[chronic fatigue syndrome]], 40% had [[chronic fatigue]], and 40% has [[depression]].<ref name="Lam2009" /> A number of the SARS survivors unable to return to work were previously healthy health-care workers.<ref name="Lam2009">{{Cite journal | last = Lam | first = Marco Ho-Bun | last2 = Wing | first2 = Yun-Kwok | last3 = Yu | first3 = Mandy Wai-Man | last4 = Leung | first4 = Chi-Ming | last5 = Ma | first5 = Ronald C.W. | last6 = Kong | first6 = Alice P.S. | last7 = So | first7 = W.Y. | last8 = Fong | first8 = Samson Yat-Yuk | last9 = Lam | first9 = Siu-Ping | date = 2009-12-14| title = Mental Morbidities and Chronic Fatigue in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Survivors: Long-term Follow-up | url = https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/415378|journal=Archives of Internal Medicine|language=en|volume=169|issue=22|pages=2142β2147|doi=10.1001/archinternmed.2009.384|issn=0003-9926}}</ref> The high rates of chronic fatigue could not be accounted got by [[depression]] or psychiatric illness.<ref name="Lam2009" /> {{See also|Postviral fatigue syndrome}} {{See also|Chronic fatigue syndrome}}
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