The strong weight of evidence indicates that ME/CFS constitutes a spectrum which differs in severity and clinical course. Where a patient falls on the spectrum does not necessarily correlate with illness severity, but to the constellation of symptoms and the triggering event. (ME can be viewed as being on the more neurologically affected end.) Thus Gulf War Syndrome, which was found to be triggered by the chemical agent pyridostigmine bromide (contained in protection pills given to U.S. and British troops to counter Soman nerve gas) resulted in a thousands of service personnel developing illness symptoms, and a certain percentage of those developing ME/CFS. Likewise, the most detailed review of studies of the health effects of the Chernobyl nuclear power accident found a percentage of those victims developed CFS. [Yablokov AV, Nesterenko VB, Nesternenko AV, Chernobyl Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment, New York Academy of Sciences (2009) at 107-111.] I would postulate that the Fukushima nuclear disaster will lead to an increase in ME/CFS in Japan.

Numerous children are now deceased as a result of all these wrong doings and complete inhumane neglect!! It is now time that patients/families across the globe

join forces to ask for full public and also criminal enquiries into these inhumane attitudes! To this day the illness is still dismissed within the medical community

and patients are laughed at and denied any chances for proper care and/or immediate clinical trials.This same attitude has gone on for decades and will

continue and in the end it is the patients who suffer and die as a result of these sick attitudes!! Is this really the way to treat people as a whole in this fasion who

prior to their illnesses were taxpayers and productive people of society. No one deserves these cruel and complete inhumane neglects that are going on and

continue to this day!! We need full public and criminal inquiries and let those who should be accountable including also the insurance industries be brought to

justice and let the public as a whole know the full truth about this devastaing chronic illness they called ‘chronic tired syndrome’ and patients get full monetary

compensations for all theIR losses!! Is this illness actually a misdiagnosed entity that was just dismissed by the medical community because of their complete

neglect then if that turns out to be the case then civil lawsuits ‘will’ be forthcoming!! Sincerely Aidan Walsh Southampton, U.K. p.s. How many more

children have to die before this illness is given its proper status as a genuine chronic ‘physiological’ illness instead of comical phycological

stupidity…PUBLIC/CRIMINAL ENQUIRIES NOW!!

“Conquering Fatigue” and “Many people with CFS don’t have a psychiatric disorder.”

Please correct these errors. The name of the disease is M.E. or “CFS” not ‘fatigue.’ This is like calling Leukemia or ME ‘fatigue.’ Yes, fatigue is perhaps the major symptom of all three diseases, but calling these diseases ‘fatigue’ is misleading.

Also readers may get the false impression that the ‘scientific community’ is all over the “CFS” problem.

Plus, what about the fact that according to CAA, it is now “laser-focused” only on research and not being in the media, due to patient protests that CAA has long misrepresented the disease and patients.

I guess the pledge to stay out of the media was worthless. In fact Vernon is now saying they are ‘laser-focused’ on making “CFS” “widely understood”, among other things. I guess doing interviews with the media is part of making “CFS” ‘widely understood.” : (