Article: Ottawa IACFS/Conference Reports IV: The Immune System!

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I imagine if the researchers got together they would say use the Canadian definition or ICC.

How could we, as a patient community, encourage the IACFS/ME to push in this direction? As yet, they don't even list the ICC among their case definitions.

 

Thanks for this comprehensive report, Cort, must have been a lot of work.

A study published just last week suggested an innate immune system gene highlighted in CFS may cause severe fatigue in hepatitis patients.

Interesting, is there a reference for this?

 

All very interesting. Thanks Cort.

Looks promising, but i guess a while until we get something really useful from this.
The PHANU thing on vacines is interesting. I dont know for sure, but i had some vacines before i went on a business trip to India a while before i got ME, and i got ill after them. It may be that they caused, or perhaps more likely, contributed to my ME/CFS. So im pleased people are looking at this stuff.