The *Hummingbirds' Foundation: XMRV, 'CFS' and M.E. by Shenk

[Guest guest]

Hello and welcome to the 'Hummingbirds' Foundation for Myalgic

Encephalomyelitis' e-newsletter for February 2010

We have one main new project to tell you about this month, two site

updates and a brief informal survey.

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A new paper is available: XMRV, 'CFS' and M.E. by Shenk

There has been much media publicity lately over a small research study

that claims to have made a connection between " CFS, " or " ME/CFS " , and a

retrovirus. While many are touting this as a huge medical breakthrough, or

even

claiming that 'our battle is over' there is a group of doctors, scientists,

patients and advocates who question why this research is being said to

apply to M.E., when the patients studied merely qualified for a 'CFS'

misdiagnosis and who view this information and the claims made about it with

tempered enthusiasm or even significant concern and worry.

Please read this brief paper to find out WHY. This page also includes a

new short paper entitled: Understanding M.E. and CFS - A Brief History.

Shenk is a severe M.E. patient (and patient advocate) from the USA.

This is the first solo paper she has written for the HFME, but hopefully

(health permitting) it will not be the last.

See: _http://www.hfme.org/xmrvcfsandme.htm_

(http://www.hfme.org/xmrvcfsandme.htm)