A Primer for XMRV and XAND

Posted by Mary Schweitzer on November 20, 2009 at 4:30pm

Where does XMRV fit in with M.E., or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis?

Perhaps M.E. is a cofactor: XMRV + M.E. = XAND. Perhaps we can divide M.E. into ME-XMRV and ME-Ramsay (just as there are cases of prostate cancer that have nothing to do with XMRV).

Unlike CFS, M.E. is a disease, a disease that has been diagnosed for half a century and coded under neurological diseases in ICD-10, the World Health Organization's current International Classification of Diseases (G93.3) - and it has been there for FORTY YEARS.

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