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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is an auto immune disorder that causes extreme, prolonged fatigue in patients without any apparent cause. An estimated 4 million American suffer from CFS, but only about 20 percent of patients are diagnosed. Patients report feeling flu-like symptoms that do not subside from several days or weeks.
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The highly respected ME/CFS researcher Dr. Kenny De Meirleir and his research team announced that they have uncovered a major cause of this mysterious illness as well as a diagnostic test for it. ME/CFS, is known to most of the world as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis but was unfortunately dubbed Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by the U.S. Center for…
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