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Is a Cure for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Really a Big Step Closer?

Posted by: Maff in XMRV, WPI, virus, retrovirus, myalgic encephalomyelitis, MECFS, ME, chronic fatigue syndrome, CFS on Oct 16, 2009

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Since Thursday of last week when news of research linking the XMRV retrovirus  to chronic fatigue syndrome hit the headlines many patients (and I suspect their doctors) have been wondering what exactly this finding means.

The amount of media attention this discovery by the Whittemore-Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease (WPI) generated in the press was unprecedented. After having the WPI

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