Consortium of Researchers Discover Retroviral Link to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Science • October 2009 • Views: 291
The Whittemore-Peterson Institute has discovered that a retrovirus linked to prostate cancer is present in a high percentage of persons diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Upwards of 67% of these patients were found to have the retrovirus XMRV, as opposed to 4% of healthy controls. The results were published last week in the journal Science, with unpublished followup testing said to have found antibodies to the retrovirus in 95% of CFS patients.