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"In 1955, an outbreak of encephalomyelitis struck the Royal Free Hospital Group
in London, U.K., hospitalizing over 200 patients. Encephalomyelitis is the
inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, typically caused by infections. But
what's intriguing is that about 2% of the patients developed what is known
today as myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), which
is also a subtype of long-Covid.
This incident was published in the
British Medical Journal in 1957, which is
likely the earliest record of ME/CFS. But the subsequent decades were met with
widespread skepticism about this condition. A few experts even believed ME/CFS
is psychosocial, a hysteria of some sort. As a result, the amount of research
done on ME/CFS was pitiful. Getting funding to do research on ME/CFS was
notoriously hard as well.
Today, we're paying the price. The pathomechanisms (patho- means disease) of
ME/CFS — as well as its risk factors, prognosis, and treatments — remain poorly
understood. We have bits of studies covering different pathomechanisms of
ME/CFS but none were unifying and convincing.
But this is about to change, thanks to recent, comprehensive research from the
U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH)."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
