Articles of Interest
http://www.stealthvirus.com/newdev.htm#
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Complex arrays of symptoms typify a number of common, chronic, disabling illnesses. To varying extents many patients report and/or demonstrate: i) Impaired mental capacities, including loss of short term memory, difficulties in verbal expression and/or comprehension, attention deficit and lethargy; ii) altered personality, including a reduced capacity to relate emotionally to others; iii) mood changes, including depression, anxiety and anger; iv) sleep disturbance; v) instability of autonomic nervous system regulation of blood pressure, pulse rate and/or bowel functions; vi)headaches and; vii) generalized body aches and pains. The medical community is split between those who view these symptoms as an indication of an underlying organic disease process, and those who consider the symptoms merely as an extension of the normal stresses and strains of everyday living (1,2). Clinicians who advocate organic disease have used various diagnostic terms such as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia, depression, Gulf war syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, attention deficit, multiple chemical sensitivity, etc.; without clear-cut distinguishing clinical or laboratory criteria. The use of imprecise clinical labels has helped bolster those who believe that none of the illnesses constitute serious medicine.
Public Health authorities have also been slow in pursuing a possible infectious etiology of CFS and related conditions. Reports of community outbreaks of CFS-like illnesses have typically been discredited as emotional over-reactions of those affected, fueled by over-zealous, incompetent physicians (3). With little support from established medicine, patients have generally had to fend for themselves in explaining their illness to family, friends and disability insurance carriers.
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