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Persistent defective Viral Infection linked to CFS

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Reuters wrote:A persistent enterovirus infection in muscles may be to blame for some cases of chronic fatigue syndrome (sometimes called fibromyalgia) and others with chronic inflammatory muscle disease, a French team reports.

They detected genetic material (specifically RNA) from enteroviruses in 20 percent of muscle biopsies from patients with chronic inflammatory muscle diseases and 13 percent of patients with fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue syndrome, but not from healthy volunteers.

The findings favor a persistent infection involving defective viral replication as a cause of these conditions.
CFS is part and parcel of pelvic pain for many men.

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