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==Treatments== [[File:Karina Hansen.jpg|200px|thumb|right|[[Karina Hansen]] became [[Pediatric myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome|ill as an adult teenager]] and is [[Severe and very severe ME|severely ill]] with ME. She was forcibly institutionalized for 3 1/2 years as the [[Denmark]] healthcare system designates ME as psychosomatic. Karina is now home with her family where she received cards from well-wishers from around the world. Karina's Danish High Court case and return home were featured in the documentary film [[Unrest|''Unrest'']]]] {{Main article |page_name=Treatments|Potential treatments for myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome}} There is no cure for ME and no country has approved any pharmacological treatment for the disease except, [[Argentina]] which has approved [[Ampligen]] for the treatment of severe ME/CFS.<ref name="Hemispherx" /> However the effectiveness of Ampligen is under dispute.<ref name="FDA-2009">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2009/11/30/daily23.html | title = FDA rejects Hemispherx’s chronic fatigue drug Ampligen | website = bizjournals.com|access-date=2018-08-12 | date =Dec 2, 2009 | last = George | first = John|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=}}</ref> Other medications have been used off-label for ME with varying effectiveness in some patients.<ref name="Carruthers, 2003" /><ref name="ICC" /> Treatments for sleep problems, headaches, pain or other symptoms are utilized by some doctors for some patients although these are treating symptoms and not ME itself.<ref name="ICC" /> Success of treating symptoms of ME is not well researched or documented. An immune system modulator drug called [[Rituximab]] has failed in a phase III clinical trial.<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://simmaronresearch.com/2017/11/norwegian-rituximab-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-mecfs-trial-fails/ | title = Norwegian Rituximab Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Trial Fails - Simmaron Research | last = Johnson | first =Cort | date = 2017-11-26|work=Simmaron Research|access-date=2018-09-07|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|language=en-US}}</ref> The antiviral Valganciclovir failed in a controlled nine month study against ME patients positive for Herpes Simplex 6 and Epstein Barr viral infections.<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Montoya | first = Jose G. | last2 = Kogelnik | first2 = Andreas M. | last3 = Bhangoo | first3 = Munveer | last4 = Lunn | first4 = Mitchell R. | last5 = Flamand | first5 = Louis | last6 = Merrihew | first6 = Lindsey E. | last7 = Watt | first7 = Tessa | last8 = Kubo | first8 = Jessica T. | last9 = Paik | first9 = Jane | date = Dec 2013 | title = Randomized clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of valganciclovir in a subset of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23959519|journal=Journal of Medical Virology|volume=85|issue=12|pages=2101–2109|doi=10.1002/jmv.23713|issn=1096-9071|pmid=23959519|pmc=|quote= | author-link = Jose Montoya | authorlink2 = Andreas Kogelnik|access-date=|via=}}</ref>
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