Could COVID-19 studies already be providing clues about what went wrong with the long haulers and people with post-infectious chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia and other diseases? Two articles in the New York Times – a feature length one,...
A couple of weeks ago Health Rising posted a kind of wakeup call for the COVID-19 long haulers. Borne out of decades of experience with ME/CFS, it was admittedly a pretty harsh piece – not easy to take in. An Open Letter to the COVID-19 Long Hauler Community...
“If you look anecdotally, there is no question that there are a considerable number of individuals who have a post-viral syndrome that in many respects incapacitates them for weeks and weeks following so-called recovery. They report symptoms such as brain fog,...
University of Utah researchers hoped their new assay might uncover a new way to treat EBV infections – but they were shocked at what it turned up. How could a 50 year old kidney drug called Spironolactone have anything to do with EBV? Four years later they...
Almost all of us carry the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) Some of us were introduced to it (and ME/CFS) during adolescence or later when we came down with infectious mononucleosis. Others have carried it in our bodies since childhood. EBV is one of the few viruses our...
Travis Craddock heads Dr. Klimas’s biocomputational modeling team at the Institute for Neuroimmune Medicine (INIM) at Nova Southeastern University. This is the team responsible for crunching the hundreds of thousands of data points gathered from Dr....
