Whittemore Peterson Institute Leads ME/CFS Research
In 2009, Whittemore Peterson Institute scientists discovered a significant link between a newly-found retrovirus, xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV), and the neuroimmune disease, ME/CFS. Their ground-breaking discovery was published in the world-renowned journal Science, on October 8, 2010. http://www.wpinstitute.org /xmrv/docs/wpi_pressrel_10 0809.pdf http://www.sciencemag.org/ content/326/5952/585.abstr act?keytype=ref&siteid=sci &ijkey=m3wzKT4yJqEyk This discovery brought renewed interest to the much-maligned disease and a flurry of research was conducted in order to confirm the link. On August 23rd 2010, US government scientists validated the link, announcing they had found an association between a family of infectious murine leukaemia viruses and ME/CFS. They reported that 87% of those sampled carried at least one of the retroviruses, along with 7% (1 in 14) of the healthy controls. http://www.rescindinc.org/ fdanihpressconf.mp3 ht...