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== Illness onset leads to advocacy == In 2006 Ryan Prior was a healthy, athletic high school student when he became ill with [[ME/CFS]]. After graduating college and becoming a journalist he wrote an article for [http://college.usatoday.com/2013/06/10/opinion-telling-the-hidden-story-of-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/ USA Today: College] [http://college.usatoday.com/2012/10/02/opinion-the-real-story-of-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/ ''Viewpoint: The real story of chronic fatigue syndrome'']<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://college.usatoday.com/2012/10/02/opinion-the-real-story-of-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/ | title = Viewpoint: The real story of chronic fatigue syndrome | last = Prior | first = Ryan | date = 2012-10-02|work=USA TODAY College|access-date=2018-08-10|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|language=en-US}}</ref> and received so much feedback that he realized he needed to do more to report on the disease and produced a documentary: "A Film That Tells The Great Under-Reported Medical Story Of Our Time." His crowdfund raised $120,000 for ''[[Forgotten Plague]]''. Prior and his then-girlfriend, [[Nicole Castillo]], co-directed.<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://mecfsdocumentary.com/fundraising/ | title = Fundraise | date = 2013-10-05|work=Forgotten Plague|access-date=2018-08-10|language=en-US}}</ref> Prior also founded the [[The Blue Ribbon Fellowship]] to educate students in the disease [[ME/CFS]]. Currently only 5% of medical schools have proper curricular, research and clinical standards of care for the disease.<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://theblueribbonfoundation.org/fellowship-details/ | title = Fellowship Details | date = 2013-12-09|work=The Blue Ribbon Foundation|access-date=2018-08-10|language=en-US}}</ref>
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