An ME/CFS patient seeing Dr. Chia just told me Chia told him he was presenting a "blockbuster finding" at the London Conference next week. He said Chia was very excited - an unusual state for him 
Chia's talk on "ME and Chronic Enterovirus Infection: An Update on pathogenesis." suggests he thinks he getting close to cause; i.e. how an enterovirus iinfections actually causes ME/CFS....
Dr. Chia's enteroviral findings came under some question when it was revealed that the test he was using could have false positives. Chia asserted that he cleared that worry at his presentation at the IACFS/ME conference in San Francisco last year. Recently Dr. Chia produced a paper validating his enteroviral findings in ME/CFS and reporting on enterovirus infections in people with acid reflux - a disorder for which he stated no probable cause has been established. (Only five percent of dyspepsia patients have evidence in H. pylori, the putative cause of dsypepsia in stomach biopsies). Chia may, in the end, believe that gut enteroviral infection contribute to a number of gut disorders
As in ME/CFS Chia believes dsRNA from enteroviruses are able to inhabit the cells of people with dyspepsia without killing them. A similar proposition has been put forward with regard to Epstein-Barr Virus an ME/CFS. Chia noted the needd to explain how enteroviruses, which have been found in the muscle, hearts and brain, are able to persist without the cells initiating their suicide machinery.In the past he's proposed that a stalemate exists between an oddly put together virus and an incompetent immune response.
Finally, the CDC has been examining Dr. Chia's samples in order to validate or invalidate them. That work should wrapping up soon an may be release at the Invest in ME conference.
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Chia's talk on "ME and Chronic Enterovirus Infection: An Update on pathogenesis." suggests he thinks he getting close to cause; i.e. how an enterovirus iinfections actually causes ME/CFS....
Dr. Chia's enteroviral findings came under some question when it was revealed that the test he was using could have false positives. Chia asserted that he cleared that worry at his presentation at the IACFS/ME conference in San Francisco last year. Recently Dr. Chia produced a paper validating his enteroviral findings in ME/CFS and reporting on enterovirus infections in people with acid reflux - a disorder for which he stated no probable cause has been established. (Only five percent of dyspepsia patients have evidence in H. pylori, the putative cause of dsypepsia in stomach biopsies). Chia may, in the end, believe that gut enteroviral infection contribute to a number of gut disorders
As in ME/CFS Chia believes dsRNA from enteroviruses are able to inhabit the cells of people with dyspepsia without killing them. A similar proposition has been put forward with regard to Epstein-Barr Virus an ME/CFS. Chia noted the needd to explain how enteroviruses, which have been found in the muscle, hearts and brain, are able to persist without the cells initiating their suicide machinery.In the past he's proposed that a stalemate exists between an oddly put together virus and an incompetent immune response.
Finally, the CDC has been examining Dr. Chia's samples in order to validate or invalidate them. That work should wrapping up soon an may be release at the Invest in ME conference.
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