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  1. Pyrrhus
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    HIV-1 infection alters energy metabolism in the brain:contributions to HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders, 2019, Cotto et al

    I don’t know of any pwHIV who developed ME post-HIV. I vaguely remember Dr. Chia mentioning that of the thousands of ME patients he had seen,...
    Post by: Pyrrhus, May 22, 2019 in forum: Other health news and research
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    HIV-1 infection alters energy metabolism in the brain:contributions to HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders, 2019, Cotto et al

    The good news is that both factors contributing to HIV-associated Neurocognitive Disorder (HAND) can be mitigated by a careful choice of...
    Post by: Pyrrhus, May 22, 2019 in forum: Other health news and research
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    Cases of Acute Flaccid Myelitis in Minnesota and other states

    The CDC has now conceded that Enterovirus D68 can cause Acute Flaccid Paralysis. Although the concession of causality is within the context of a...
    Post by: Pyrrhus, May 8, 2019 in forum: Other health news and research
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    Exosomes

    There are exosomes that carry up to 40 enteroviruses in a single vesicle. More info:...
    Post by: Pyrrhus, Apr 28, 2019 in forum: ME/CFS research news
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    MEPedia is offline

    MEpedia is currently implementing much-needed improvements that will require intermittent downtime to install upgrades. These intermittent...
    Post by: Pyrrhus, Apr 25, 2019 in forum: MEpedia
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    MEpedia Down

    Just to clarify, the problem is not with MEpedia, it is with the ISP. All MEpedia can do is wait for the ISP to fix the problem.
    Post by: Pyrrhus, Apr 3, 2019 in forum: MEpedia
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    Cases of Acute Flaccid Myelitis in Minnesota and other states

    And now NIAID has weighed in, with a somewhat more urgent outlook than the CDC’s: https://mbio.asm.org/content/10/2/e00521-19 Ten years ago...
    Post by: Pyrrhus, Apr 2, 2019 in forum: Other health news and research
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    Minister targets anti-vaccination websites - BBC March 2019

    Quite true. But the vaccines could have been major contributing factors. Unfortunately, we may never be able to untangle the contributing...
    Post by: Pyrrhus, Apr 2, 2019 in forum: Other health news and research
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    Minister targets anti-vaccination websites - BBC March 2019

    You may be interested in the following paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24914115 The paper only considers one particular combination...
    Post by: Pyrrhus, Apr 2, 2019 in forum: Other health news and research
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    Cases of Acute Flaccid Myelitis in Minnesota and other states

    Update from the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6812a1.htm?s_cid=mm6812a1_w Good to hear the CDC is trying active, prospective,...
    Post by: Pyrrhus, Mar 29, 2019 in forum: Other health news and research
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    Frontiers review - Chronotropic incompetence an overlooked determinant of symptoms and activity limitation in ME/CFS (prov. 2019) Davenport et al

    Thank you for the clarification. It sounds like one might have to posit anti-adrenergic antibodies, not some central mechanism, if one wanted to...
    Post by: Pyrrhus, Mar 26, 2019 in forum: ME/CFS research
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    Frontiers review - Chronotropic incompetence an overlooked determinant of symptoms and activity limitation in ME/CFS (prov. 2019) Davenport et al

    Thank you so much, @Snow Leopard , for the intriguing crash course in exercise physiology. I still have a lot to learn about this subject. Your...
    Post by: Pyrrhus, Mar 26, 2019 in forum: ME/CFS research
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    Frontiers review - Chronotropic incompetence an overlooked determinant of symptoms and activity limitation in ME/CFS (prov. 2019) Davenport et al

    I'm very curious- what could be determined if EMG signalling is measured? On which nerve(s) would the EMG be conducted? What would an increased...
    Post by: Pyrrhus, Mar 24, 2019 in forum: ME/CFS research
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    Whole blood human transcriptome and virome analysis of ME/CFS patients experiencing PEM following cardiopulmonary exercise testing, 2019, Chiu et al

    Not at all. Although people have talked about viruses ad nauseum for decades, there has been very little true high-quality research to actually...
    Post by: Pyrrhus, Mar 22, 2019 in forum: ME/CFS research
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    Whole blood human transcriptome and virome analysis of ME/CFS patients experiencing PEM following cardiopulmonary exercise testing, 2019, Chiu et al

    It’s so good to see Stevens, Van Ness, and Snell pair up with someone like Charles Chiu. At first glance, the study design seems excellent. They...
    Post by: Pyrrhus, Mar 22, 2019 in forum: ME/CFS research
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    false assumptions about viral infections

    This is not exactly what you’re talking about, but it is possible for a viral quasispecies to move from one cell to another. In the case of...
    Post by: Pyrrhus, Mar 16, 2019 in forum: Other health news and research
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    false assumptions about viral infections

    Very interesting, thanks for sharing. There is a related phenomenon, researched by Raul Andino, of ”viral quasi-species”. In this scenario you...
    Post by: Pyrrhus, Mar 15, 2019 in forum: Other health news and research
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    ME/CFS International Research Symposium, March 2019, Australia

    For the record, this is not a generally accepted assumption in the field of virology. In fact, there are numerous examples of persistent viral...
    Post by: Pyrrhus, Mar 14, 2019 in forum: ME/CFS research news
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    Skin crawling/formication

    The sensation of insects crawling on your skin, when there are actually no insects, is called “formication”. It is a neurological symptom, but...
    Post by: Pyrrhus, Feb 20, 2019 in forum: General and other signs and symptoms
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    Dr Jonathan Kerr

    For what it’s worth, Dr. Chia does not use interferon. He tried it in some patients many years ago, but soon abandoned the idea.
    Post by: Pyrrhus, Feb 2, 2019 in forum: UK clinics and doctors
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