Re: WSJ - The Puzzle Of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

March 5, 2011

CFS not being beatable is a myth. Do you know what causes ulcers?

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> The Puzzle of Chronic Fatigue

> For 20 years, a doctor in upstate New York has been trying to prove that an

outbreak of the strange syndrome in his community was caused by a virus. Now new

evidence is reopening the case.

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> One snowy afternoon in October 1985, eight children from the tiny farming

community of Lyndonville, N.Y., went sledding together. Within a few weeks, they

all got sick.

> Bell, the local doctor who treated the children, recalls that their

symptoms were similar to the flu: sore throats, fevers, muscle aches and severe

fatigue. After three days, they hadn't recovered. Then a week. A month. Ninety

days.

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> Nearly 25 years after the " Lyndonville outbreak " of chronic fatigue syndrome,

a controversy is brewing among scientists over what causes the disease. A

small-town doctor hopes his patients will help provide the answer. WSJ's

Bellini reports.

> Six months after their sledding trip, the children still couldn't go back to

the lone school in town. They had trouble getting out of bed. Light gave them a

headache. Four of the eight were so sick that they were essentially disabled,

Dr. Bell recalls. Tests ruled out mono and other infections. " We had no idea at

all what it was, " he says.

> Over the next two years, the mysterious illness spread throughout this rural

village of 862 people halfway between Buffalo and Rochester. It eventually

affected 214 people within a 30-mile radius, 46 of them children....

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