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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Newsweek (1990)
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== Research == *Portland Oregon held a national conference where [[Epstein-Barr virus|EBV]], newly discovered [[Human herpesvirus 6]], [[enteroviruses]] ([[poliovirus]], [[coxsackie]], [[echovirus]]) seemed to be found in the chronically sick but "none was active in every patient, and none turned up exclusively in people with the illness." In 1988 the CDC proposed the name Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. "Its existence could not be denied, but its cause was still a mystery." *With sophisticated imaging such as [[SPECT]], patients showed "abnormally low blood flow to one of the two temporal lobes." *A retroviral infection was suspected. Virologist [[Elaine DeFreitas]] of Wistar Institute analyzed was sent samples by Cheney of CFS patients (she was unaware of the sample's origins) and found all six showed signs of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_T-lymphotropic_virus HTLV] infection. A larger study of CFS samples revealed "fully 77 percent contained a distinctive piece of genetic material found in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_T-lymphotropic_virus_2 HTLV-2]. Not one of the 20 samples drawn from the general population contained the same viral gene. Ironically, the findings don't suggest that chronic fatigue syndrome is caused by HTLV-2. For while one of the virus's four genes was very much in evidence, DeFreitas could find no trace of a second. HTLV-2 would be an unlikely suspect anyway, given the way it is transmitted. Like the AIDS virus, it survives only in body fluids such as blood and semen. No one is sure how people get CFS, but it clearly isn't transmitted like AIDS." DeFreitas did one last experiment by giving the blood samples to a colleague at Wistar and the suspicious RNA gene was found to be silent while in six of 12 CFS samples "it was actively churning out copies of itself." Note: Retrovirus as causation for [[ME/CFS]] have never been proven (the CDC could not replicate DeFreitas' findings)<ref>[http://www.newsweek.com/chronic-fatigue-cover-176506 A Chronic Fatigue Cover-Up? - Newsweek - Arp 21, 1996]</ref><ref>[http://forums.phoenixrising.me/index.php?entries/retrovirusgate.117/ RETROVIRUSGATE - New York Native, Nov 28, 1994 by Neenyah Ostrom (Blog Entry Jan 22, 2010 at Phoenix Rising)]</ref> and when the [[XMRV]] theory fell apart retroviruses have not been further researched.
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