{"id":151456,"date":"2010-01-07T16:48:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/health\/2010\/01\/07\/or-maybe-that-virus-isnt-linked-to-chronic-fatigue-syndrome\/"},"modified":"2010-01-07T16:48:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:48:13","slug":"or-maybe-that-virus-isn%e2%80%99t-linked-to-chronic-fatigue-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/151456","title":{"rendered":"Or Maybe That Virus Isn\u2019t Linked to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"chronicA few months back, a group of scientists got a lot of attention<\/a> when they published a study<\/a> that suggested a virus called XMRV could be linked to many cases of chronic fatigue syndrome, or CFS.<\/p>\n

But as we noted at the time<\/a>, the study didn’t clearly prove a link between the disease and the virus. Now, in a study published this week in the journal PLoS One<\/a>, scientists in the U.K. say they looked at samples from 186 CFS patients and found no sign of XMRV.<\/p>\n

A research institute that was part of the earlier study fired off a press release<\/a> that faulted the methods used in the new article, arguing that the techniques “not only explain their failure to replicate” the earlier findings, “but also render the conclusions meaningless.” Needless to say, the U.K. scientists defended their work. (For more on the technical back-and-forth, see this article from ScienceNOW<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

A lot is at stake here, because there’s no test to determine whether someone has CFS; it’s diagnosed based on a patient’s symptoms, which the CDC says<\/a> include six months or more of incapacitating fatigue, along with other problems. So finding a physiological link — like a viral infection — would be an important advance.<\/p>\n

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A few months back, a group of scientists got a lot of attention when they published a study that suggested a virus called XMRV could be linked to many cases of chronic fatigue syndrome, or CFS. But as we noted at the time, the study didn’t clearly prove a link between the disease and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}