Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

New Hypothesis Proposed for Cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Published in Women's Health Weekly, November 23rd, 1998

Researchers at Ohio State University in Columbus have proposed a new hypothesis for the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) -- one that blames the illness both on a low-level viral infection and on the body's own immune response to that virus.

If true, it would offer an explanation for why virologists so far haven't found evidence of a common virus when looking at a population of CFS patients.

The new hypothesis, proposed by Ronald Glaser, professor of medical microbiology and immunology, and Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, professor of psychology and psychiatry at OSU, is the latest work in more than two decades of their research on the effects of stress...

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