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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35383832
(This really is enough to make a man eat his young)
(This really is enough to make a man eat his young)
The diagnoses of the condition in the study were based on responses to questionnaires sent to teenagers and their parents, and were not made by a doctor.
This large population study found that one in 50 16-year-olds have CFS/ME lasting more than six months and nearly one in 33 have CFS/ME persisting for more than three months.
Yet only one in 1,000 are diagnosed with the condition.
She said experts still did not know exactly why or how the condition is triggered, but research showed it could be successfully treated with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in young people.
Sonya Chowdhury, chief executive of Action for ME, said the study pointed to the need for more effective treatments.
"We know from contact with the parents of children with ME that this disabling condition impacts on every area of family life.
"The reality is that many young people miss considerably more than half a day of school a week, while for the most severely affected, their disabling symptoms are compounded by the isolation and loss that comes with being housebound and/or bedbound."