IIMEC 2023: Maureen Hanson

[Trish]

The term PEM was coined in 1992 specifically for (ME/)CFS precisely because there was no existing term to describe such an unusual symptom. And Nancy Klimas is an immunologist/clinician who sees both ME and HIV/Aids patients. I'm sure she would have commented if Aids patients have PEM.

Posts discussing the date of origin and source of the term PEM have been moved to PEM discussion thread

 

[FMMM1]

In her talk Maureen refers to her work with Grimson - here's a link to the thread re that paper -
https://www.s4me.info/threads/singl...om-provocation-2022-ahmed-hanson-et-al.30170/

Here's a link to the paper -
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.13.512091v1

EDIT - my impression is that we need the results from DecodeME [Chris Ponting's GWAS] and very probably further GWAS e.g. via NIH, Horizon Europe --- Maybe Ron Davis's [NIH funded] KIR gene sequence study will be informative too.
I'm impressed by Hanson but I still think we need that objective assessment of the underlying pathology [EDIT e.g. from GWAS]. E.g. these findings may be downstream/consequence i.e. rather than cause.