Chronic Fatigue Syndrome affects 17 million people worldwide, and 1 million of those are Americans. Recent studies have shown that 67% of people with this are also infected with xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus, which is “a member of the same family of viruses as the AIDS virus;” This type of virus will stick around for life. Doctors and scientists are not sure that the virus causes syndromes of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but they are trying to determine the connection. One step that is being taking is prescribing these patients with drugs for HIV to see if they counteract any of the symptoms; but many doctors are excited because this will allow them to possibly find a solution for something that puzzled them for so long.
I found this article compelling because there has been a lot of buzz about HIV/AIDS treatment in the news lately, and the fact that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome could be related is interesting to me. I would like to know more about why and how they started to test patients with the disease for this virus, and what implications it has for the possibility of finding a cure.
I found this article compelling because there has been a lot of buzz about HIV/AIDS treatment in the news lately, and the fact that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome could be related is interesting to me. I would like to know more about why and how they started to test patients with the disease for this virus, and what implications it has for the possibility of finding a cure.
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