SOME dismiss chronic fatigue syndrome as being all in the mind – little do they know how close they are to the truth. For some people the debilitating symptoms of fatigue and poor memory and concentration could be the result of temporary brain damage caused by viral infection.
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) – sometimes known as ME – can follow infection with certain viruses such as the Epstein-Barr virus, which causes glandular fever. One popular explanation is that ongoing viral infection or abnormal immune changes resulting from that infection are to blame for symptoms of CFS.
To test this theory, Andrew Lloyd of…
