September 2010. After the bombshell findings of Murine Leukemia Virus Related Virus (XMRV) being discovered in American CFS patients and this finding being published in the highly coveted SCIENCE journal (Lomardi et al, 2009 - Detection of an infectious retrovirus XMRV in the blood cells of patients with CFS) by the Whittemore Peterson Institute (WPI) and this finding confirmed as real by the American government FDA and published in PNAS journal (Alter et al, 2010 - Detection of MLV-related virus gene sequences in blood of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and healthy blood donors) who discovered polytrophic MULV's in CFS patients - things in Europe aren't so rosy. Or so people are lead to believe..... due to the silence in the media and endless 'failed' studies using outspoken denialists of ME/CFS, methods that cannot detect XMRV and a cohort of psychiatrically ill people who do not meet the Criteria for neuro immune CFS or ME. The British and Dutch say they can't find XMRV, and it's probably contamination, and thus won't fund any more studies because they cannot find anything. Now, by total coincidence, both these countries have spent decades blaming their own citizens with ME/CFS and telling them their viral symptoms are a 'belief' in between the ears, and they need to manage their illness with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Exercise and get back to work. This has cost the tax payer BILLIONS in currency and the disease remains incurable. Research funding ...
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