Allyson
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Since nobody, either in the US or in the UK, has the slightest clue about the etiology of either ME or CFS, they are the same condition as far as I am concerned. And I thought ME was chosen because it was less offensive than CFS? I didn't realize there was proven "brain inflammation" in ME. I just assumed it was an educated guess.
There have only been three known ME or CFS epidemics; yet there are millions of patients. 99.9% of patients did not get sick in epidemics. Why is that the case? I'm skeptical of the transmissible origin of ME/CFS, that's all.
CFS is definitely a disease of exclusion. But doctors, so far, have not considered the mistake of excluding EDS or weak connective tissue as a predisposing factor. That is the whole point of Allyson's thread. She has found the missing link. So far it is the only compelling hypothesis I have come across in 30 years of being sick.
Yes I agree Mish mash; I thought the 2011 consensu document renamed csf as ME.
CLuster outbreaks of breast cancer have occured - eg in the ABC building in Melbourne recently but that does not mean breast cancer is caused by a virus.
Also there are cluster outbreaks of leukemia and other after every nuclear power plant disaster and in that case we know the cause ..and it is not a virus. Just because two things occur at the soem time it does not incdicate that one caused the other.
As they say, in hot weather icecream makers produce more icecream, but the hot weather does not cause them to engage in this behaviour....consumer demand drives it.