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Abstract Background and Objective: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is a severe illness with the hallmark symptom of Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM). Currently, no biomarkers or established diagnostic tests for ME/CFS exist. In Germany, it is estimated that over 300,000...

Nature - molecular psychiatry Chronic post-COVID-19 syndrome and chronic fatigue syndrome: Is there a role for extracorporeal apheresis? - Bornstein et al Abstract As millions of patients have been infected by SARS-CoV-2 virus a vast number of individuals complain about continuing...

Abstract During the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, neurological symptoms increasingly moved into the focus of interest. In this prospective cohort study, we assessed neurological and cognitive symptoms in hospitalized coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19)...

This seems like a competent person that can communicate the issues well. ME/CFS and PEM are mentioned in the article. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/der-umgang-mit-den-sp%25C3%25A4tfolgen-corona-pandemie-claudia-ellert Dear Sirs and Madames...

At University Hospital Tübingen, Germany, a "group of scientists from various disciplines interested in questions regarding Post-Covid that are relevant to [clinical] practice ["praxisrelevant"]" has designed a set of surveys (one for patients, one for doctors and one for other health...

Abstract Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Myalgic Encephaloymelitis (ME/CFS) is a frequent debilitating disease with an enigmatic etiology. The finding of autoantibodies against ß2-adrenergic receptors (ß2AdR) prompted us to hypothesize that ß2AdR dysfunction is of critical importance in the...

Abstract Impairment of health after overcoming the acute phase of COVID-19 is being observed more and more frequently. Here different symptoms of neurological and/or cardiological origin have been reported. With symptoms, which are very similar to the ones reported but are not caused by...

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/4/1154

Full title: Chronic COVID-19 Syndrome and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) following the first pandemic wave in Germany: a first analysis of a prospective observational study https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.06.21249256v1

Paywall, https://journals.lww.com/psychosomaticmedicine/Abstract/9000/Somatosensory_illusions_elicited_by_sham.98487.aspx Sci hub, no access.

There’s some good news from Germany. Two federal agencies ,namely the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) have announced initiatives for ME/CFS. I hope I summarize these well because my German isn’t that good and it seems that the news...

The German ME/CFS organization Fatigatio is organizing a (digital) symposium in Hannover on 19 September 2020. Speakers include Michael Stingl, Carmen Scheibenbogen, Jonas Bergquist, and Bhupesh K. Prusty. More information here: https://www.fatigatio.de/mecfs-fachtagung-2020-des-fatigatio-ev/

Full title: Associations of physical and psychiatric conditions with chronic fatigue syndrome in Germany: an exploratory case-control study...

This year #MillionsMissing global protests will take place between May 9th–17th. #MillionsMissing Germany announced the participating cities from Germany today: :hug: Aachen, Erlangen, Freiburg, Gütersloh, Halle, Münster and Ravensburg :hug: These are more cities than in the years before (we...

Article in German, apparently mentions Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but I don't know in what context. Pubmed, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31960308 Paywall (which has a different title, but is where Pubmed links to)...

Saw this and it looks like a blog hosted on a newspaper platform. Pretty decent. Translated URL: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.freitag.de%2Fautoren%2Fwreiter%2Feine-schreckliche-krankheit Original URL...

I know, the name doesn't sound promising, but the meeting is actually on "chronic fatigue" and ME is one of the topics. Amongst others Drs Scheibenbogen, Behrends, Nacul, Lacerda, Mella, Prusty take part. It's the first international conference that includes ME in Germany that I know of...

Getting my information for this solely from this tweet, as I can't get Google to translate the website. Copy and paste link https://twitter.com/MECentraal/status/1183809872028209152?s=20 Can any German speaker confirm the info above? @TiredSam @Joh

All information taken from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für ME/CFS Facebook post and Facebook translate. https://www.facebook.com/dg.mecfs/posts/628905577517511