Is the CDC misrepresenting the prevalence of CFS?

[Guest guest]

Some people ( S. for one) believe so

" The misinformation in the press because of the inattention paid to this disease

by CDC is

significant. There is a fifty-fold discrepancy between the latest CDC prevalence

rates and

the rates listed at the NIH website, and too frequently quoted by the press. CDC

has done

little to correct the continued reporting of false statistics with regard to CFS

prevalence,

and apparently has little intention of doing so in the near future. This summer

(after this

observer had requested at every CFSCC meeting since October 1997 that the NIH

website

be changed) , a single sentence appeared on the NIH website, stating the

official

prevalence rates are held by CDC, with a link to CDC's CFS home page. While it

would have

been a simple matter to have added that " the CDC currently estimates that the

disease

affects 400,000 Americans, " this was not done. "

http://www.cfids-me.org/marys/cdcprobs.html

I wonder why! Maybe it has something to do with insurance companies paying out

to

people who have the disease but fail to be diagnosed.

peace,

paul