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===1980s=== ==== [[Ayrshire|1980-81 - West Kilbridge, Ayrshire, Scotland]] ==== M.E. epidemic reported in a rural medical practice. ==== [[1980 Helensburgh outbreak|1980-83 - Helensburgh, Scotland]] ==== Coxsackie B outbreak reported in a general practice. ==== [[1981 Stirlingshire outbreak|1981-82 - Stirlingshire, Scotland]] ==== Sporadic cases of M.E. reported. ==== [[1981 Gunnedah outbreak|1981 - Gunnedah, NSW, Australia]] ==== The Gunnedah outbreak was linked with pesticides, which were conjectured to be interacting with viruses and other environmental chemicals in a post-viral syndrome.<ref name="Canb1987">[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122114779 "M.E.: a mystery illness affecting Australians"] ''The Canberra Times (newspaper)'' 12 November 1987: 19.</ref> Those affected included one local GP, with that GP forming the view this was clearly a physical illness. The outbreak was featured in a film ''More than Just Poison'' made in 1986 by the Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals Committee.<ref>Video - [http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/8495284 "More Than Just Poison"] ''Arafura Films'', 1986</ref> ==== [[1982 West Otago outbreak|1982-84 - Tapanui & West Otago, New Zealand]] ==== Outbreak first described and an "unexplained illness," later as M.E. Included here are outbreaks in Dunedin and Hamilton New Zealand. ==== [[1984 USA endemic|1984 - North America (Endemic)]] ==== "From 1984 until 1992 [at publication of this text] an endemic period occurred in which an usually large number of cluster and epidemics of M.E./CFS have been recognized in North America. After an apparent initial increase in the morbidity in 1983 there seemed to have appeared in late summer of 1984 an unprecedented increase of sporadic and epidemic cases across North America. Although certain geographical hot spots seen to have taken up much of the medical interest, this endemic situation probably represents an unusual and unremitting morbidity in all areas of the United States and Canada." -Dr. Byron Hyde- ====[[Incline village|1984 - Incline village, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA]] ==== A chronic illness characterized by fatigue, neurologic and immunologic disorders and active human herpesvirus type 6 infection. This community epidemic, apparently started in a girls' basketball team, then involved primarily teacher in at least three high schools, and then large numbers of the community.<ref name="NewsWeek19901111"/> ==== [[1984 Chapel Hill outbreak|1984 - Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA]] ==== "Epidemic amongst members of The North Carolina Symphony Orchestra. Low NKC [Natural Killer Cells] associated with high yield of lymphoma, astrocytoma, glioma." ==== [[1984 Montreal outbreak| 1984 - Montreal, Quebec-Ontario, Canada]] ==== Over 500 cases of M.E./CFS documented during August-November 1984 period. This endemic was active in all parts of Canada during this period and appears [to] have maintained its activity until the time of writing in 1991. ==== [[1984 Truckee outbreak|1984-85 - Truckee, California, USA]] ==== M.E. epidemic involving teachers and students. ==== [[1985 Lyndonville outbreak|1985 - Lyndonville, New York, USA]] ==== M.E. epidemic in a rural community involving children and adults.<ref name="NewsWeek19901111"/> ==== [[1985 Yerington outbreak|1985 Yerington, Nevada, USA]] ==== In the same area [not far from Truckee, California] an M.E./CFS-like epidemic reputedly occurred in a reservation of American Native people. ==== [[1986 Placerville outbreak|1986 - Placerville, California, USA]] ==== Outbreak of chronic fatigue syndrome 'coincident with a heavy contamination of the local unfiltered water supply'. ==== [[1988 Sonora CA outbreak|1988 - Sonora, California, USA]] ==== "More than 35 children and adults were diagnosed with M.E. in the mountain country 100 miles from Lake Tahoe. Many of these patients were associated in some way with Columbia Community College." ==== [[1988 Narrabeen outbreak|1988 - Narrabeen, NSW, Australia]] ==== <ref name="Canb1987"/><ref>[http://www.mecfswa.org.au/About_ME-CFS/Brief_History ME/CFS Society of Western Australia - Endemic Outbreaks]</ref> ==== [[1989 Roseville CA outbreak|1989 - Roseville, California, USA]] ==== Rosedale Hospital reported 11 cases of M.E./CFS among staff.
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