In a stunning move, responsibility for XMRV research has been taken away from the ME/CFS working group within the CDC, and re-assigned to the division of HIV/AIDS prevention. This group will be in charge of replicating findings of the Whittemore-Peterson Institute, rather than the group under the control of Dr. Reeves. The move [...]
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More on XMRV as possible cause of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue
XMRV is believed by the researchers to be a possible cause of chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, but also some forms of autism. It is a “simple” retrovirus, therefore treatable. Research is already underway for determining causality and possible treatments, based on AIDS research and drugs developed to date. Here, Dr. Judy Mikovits, [...]
CDC position on XMRV findings showing CFS might be caused by virus
The CDC has called the new Chronic Fatigue Syndrome research exciting, but preliminary.
“If I don’t know the nature of the cases and controls, I can’t interpret the findings,” Dr. William C. Reeves, who directs public health research on the syndrome, told The New York Times.
“We and others are looking at our own specimens and trying [...]
Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, and a willful CDC failure
Recent research has found xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus, or XMRV — a retrovirus in the same family of viruses as the AIDS virus — in nearly 98% of about 300 patients with so-called “chronic fatigue” syndrome. The study was performed and a paper co-authored by 14 scientists at the Whittemore Peterson Institute in [...]
