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TAke a look at this, taken from the CFS Central site's article on the new papers regarding the Murine Leukemia (retro)Viruses, of which HIV and XMRV are two of the three currently known familes. Here's what we're dealing with!
Dr. William Reeves and the CDC
After Dr. Judy Mikovits's paper linking XMRV to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was published in Science in October 2009, Dr. William Reeves, the head of CFS research at the CDC for 20 years until February of this year, told the New York Times: We and others are looking at our own specimens and trying to confirm it. If we validate it, great. My expectation is that we will not. Reeves also told the Times that the culprits behind CFS were more likely sexual and emotional abuse and an inability to handle stress.
Privately, insiders have told CFS Central that they did not expect the CDC to find the retrovirus because the agencys CFS definition has been watered down from one neuroimmune disease to five different combinations of depression, insomnia, obesity and metabolic strain, as Reeves himself explained in a 2009 paper. In a 2008 CDC paper, An extended concept of altered self, Dr. Jim Jones argued that illnesses such as CFS are illness states rather than true diseases. A CDC paper from 2006 on coping styles found CFS patients guilty of maladaptive coping and escape-avoiding behavior.
However, studies by Dr. Leonard Jason have shown that using the CDCs latest definition of the disease, 38 percent of patients have major depression, not CFS, which is a serious neuroimmune disease, as shown in more than 2,500 peer-reviewed studies.
Though Reeves was transferred from CFS research to senior adviser for Mental Health Surveillance in February, he is still authoring studies on CFS. His latest, released in July, is Personality Features and Personality Disorders in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
For more information on the retroviral link to CFS, see "Blood Feud: Part 1" and "Blood Feud: Part 2" or contact CFS Central at mindykitei.cfscentral@comcast.net
Posted Monday, August 23, 2010
Dr. William Reeves and the CDC
After Dr. Judy Mikovits's paper linking XMRV to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was published in Science in October 2009, Dr. William Reeves, the head of CFS research at the CDC for 20 years until February of this year, told the New York Times: We and others are looking at our own specimens and trying to confirm it. If we validate it, great. My expectation is that we will not. Reeves also told the Times that the culprits behind CFS were more likely sexual and emotional abuse and an inability to handle stress.
Privately, insiders have told CFS Central that they did not expect the CDC to find the retrovirus because the agencys CFS definition has been watered down from one neuroimmune disease to five different combinations of depression, insomnia, obesity and metabolic strain, as Reeves himself explained in a 2009 paper. In a 2008 CDC paper, An extended concept of altered self, Dr. Jim Jones argued that illnesses such as CFS are illness states rather than true diseases. A CDC paper from 2006 on coping styles found CFS patients guilty of maladaptive coping and escape-avoiding behavior.
However, studies by Dr. Leonard Jason have shown that using the CDCs latest definition of the disease, 38 percent of patients have major depression, not CFS, which is a serious neuroimmune disease, as shown in more than 2,500 peer-reviewed studies.
Though Reeves was transferred from CFS research to senior adviser for Mental Health Surveillance in February, he is still authoring studies on CFS. His latest, released in July, is Personality Features and Personality Disorders in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
For more information on the retroviral link to CFS, see "Blood Feud: Part 1" and "Blood Feud: Part 2" or contact CFS Central at mindykitei.cfscentral@comcast.net
Posted Monday, August 23, 2010
I say it cuold be triggered by stress, but is probably viral in origin. That would make most sense. As for depression, hello! those with chronic illness are often depressed! Duh!
I'd say more but I'm too ticked. Thanks for posting this.
I see no reason to get worked up over this or anything having to do with William Reeves.
The truth is coming out and that's all I need to concern myself with. The rest is just gossip.
The big picture still ain't grand. I think this truth is still going to trickle and will have to trickle past those kinds of obstacles for a while.
Director Largo Bio-Science