Hopes of discovering treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome dimmed on Friday after a new study cast doubt on previous findings that a virus linked to prostate cancer might also be associated with the condition.Oops.
A Dutch research team investigated a possible link in a European group of patients with the fatigue disorder, also known as ME, that affects 17 million people worldwide, but found no evidence of the virus, known as XMRV.
The findings in the British Medical Journal were the latest to contradict a U.S. study published last year that found XMRV in the blood of 68 out of 101 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
That study prompted hopes that CFS patients might benefit from a range of drugs designed to fight AIDS, cancer and inflammation.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Study casts doubt on virus link to chronic fatigue
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