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What about our human rights?

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this was taken from the Human Rights watch website:

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Has anyone tried to contact them? seeing as contacting the CDC,NIH,FDA and many others has done nothing.

To me the way the CDC has treated ME/CFS is a violation to human rights, somebody should do something about it.

I know there's people that have been sick for many years even decades and they are housebound and many are disabled, i know they have been fighting for many years, yet very few things have been accomplished, it is time we do something about it.

I don't ask for the government to pay for my health costs, for now i can still work and luckily i have a really good health insurance, i just ask them to recognize this as the real devastating illness that it is and i ask them to do some real research to hopefully find good treatment, as i said before i can still work and if i had available treatment i would be able to maybe work for many years and take care of myself, but with out any real treatment in the horizon i don't know what the future has in store for me, i may be disabled soon and then i'll have to ask for disability benefits which if granted it would cost my state many thousands of dollars, i don't see the logic in keeping people sick when even economically it's cheaper to get them back to health so they can have a normal life including a job.

Something is seriously wrong with the government, many more people's lives will be ruined if nothing is done about it..