Shingles Shingles – the word sends a chill through me. I was introduced to shingles through my grandfather’s wife, Ethel. With her Scottish brogue and her lively personality, she was a great addition to our family after my grandmother died. She and my...
“MAJOR ARTICLE” It was good to see a study from a major medical university exploring exercise capacity in long COVID and appearing in a prominent medical journal. The Journal of Infectious Diseases gave it the headline “MAJOR ARTICLE”. It came...
The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is back again and it doesn’t look like it’s going to go away anytime soon. In fact, we’ll likely be seeing more and more of this complex virus as time goes on – and hopefully, finally, learn not just what it’s...
Earlier Alice penned a thought-provoking blog “No, long COVID is not helping ME/CFS”. Now she and Dr. Naomi Harvey propose that a shift in the language we use to describe both long COVID and ME/CFS would benefit both. ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) is a...
The coronavirus is triggering all sorts of diseases other than ME/CFS – that’s good news for anyone with a post-infectious illness We thought the coronavirus would trigger a lot of chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and it has. The big surprise is what...
As a researcher in international development, travel vaccines for low-income countries are a typical part of my life. But I never expected that once I developed Long COVID, a travel vaccine for Japanese encephalitis might help me make a rapid recovery. Could similar...