Here's an interesting another article in the media today:

"Last year, however, Dr Jonathan Kerr's team at St George's, University of London reported differences in the way genes are used in the white blood cells of people with the disease, in studies backed by the CFS Research Foundation.

Research presented at a meeting organised by the foundation last night provides further evidence that, in patients with well-defined symptoms, there are marked changes in how genes are regulated. And Dr Kerr said that, within a year, he will have made the first attempts to use drugs to treat the disease, based on the new understanding of the metabolic pathways affected by the genes. -- Roger Highfield, Hope for sufferers of chronic fatigue, Telegraph, 2 March 2006"

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I hope you find it interesting!

Claire
Editor of Sleepydust

Here's an interesting finding from a 7-year study of 39 people with acute glandular fever caused by a infection called the Epstein-Barr virus:

"(...) researchers at the University of New South Wales [Australia] said they had found the condition was not caused by a virus or immune problems, but from damage to the brain.

"In an article published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases this week they said that eight of the subjects went on to develop chronic fatigue syndrome." -- IOL, Is glandular fever the cause of fatigue?, March 02 2006 --

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I hope you find it interesting!

Claire
Editor of Sleepydust