Still pretty common, sadly.
In kind of a similar confusion, the star goalie of my hockey team has been underperforming and some months ago media reports came out saying his medical team had diagnosed him with chronic fatigue, which routinely gets morphed into chronic fatigue syndrome, in part because the original reporting confused it (and still does).
I saw it again just a few weeks ago and it was confused by media in both languages and across Canada and the US.
Some got it right:
To be clear, chronic fatigue is
different from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), and the
original TVA report did no one any favors by conflating the two in the article’s sub-head. Chronic fatigue is generally considered a symptom of something else, in this case an apparent vitamin deficiency. CFS is meanwhile an ailment in its own right.
Kind of a hit and a miss considering the definition of aliment is "typically a minor disease".
Others, corrected it later but some original reports still have it wrong:
Note: this article originally stated that Price had been diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, based on an incorrect sub-header present in the original article. This has been corrected.
That was, of course, the whole point of creating chronic fatigue syndrome. Chronic fatigue is one of the most common symptoms in medicine. That language was simply used to erase ME as a distinct medical entity. The harm done by this simple act of sabotage will go down as one of the single most incompetent and malicious in the history of medicine. There was absolutely no basis for it, it was purely ideological.
There was a thread in the hockey sub-reddit and I tried my best to educate. Went pretty alright, although I doubt anyone will have their opinion transformed by it. There was of course the obligatory medical professional butting in saying it's common for ME/CFS (what I used since it was laypeople) to be cured, but overall upvotes aplenty to my trying to bring awareness.
Obligatory: Go Habs Go.
