Herd immunity is a worrying concept. It only works in diseases that give long term immunity and do not mutate much but colds don't fit that very...
They drop virus into tissue culture all the time and it manages to replicate. Also viruses have been around for, what is it, billions of years?...
It may be that this is looking at viable virus. The original work only looked at the presence of virus no if it was infectious. This is a link in...
This is one of those studies which only looks at numbers so tells us nothing. Dry eyes are a symptom just like fatigue or cough, it is such a wide...
Neurasthenia was thought to be caused by the experience of "modern living" in the cities of the 1800s which people were thought to be bad for the...
Possibly because participants from both were away with the fairies.
This thread made me think about why we recover from other virus infections so quickly. It must be because what we think of as, say, a cold is...
All this about patients not recovering quickly is confusing me. After a severe body damaging infection like covid 19, why would anyone expect...
When I studied microbiology in the early 70s, it was accepted as fact that some infections could take a long time to recover from, two or three...
I am very reluctant to start going out again even if the lockdown is lifted but not because of any but because the virus has not gone away, the...
I have been thinking about the post covid 19 problems. Dr Paul Cheney spoke about his heart transplant though I can't remember the ME context. He...
If your health is really bad all the time then you will not be able to see a delay before you get ill though it might be possible to detect if we...
The smallest exertion leading to relapse is not PEM as unique to ME. It is post exertional fatigue, as seen in post viral syndromes. If it is like...
The way even experts don't seem to know what we get is infuriating. Listen to us! We get all the same symptoms of fatigue and post exertional...
35 years of reading the literature and I have never heard of this :)
Jon Stone has now taken the MUS out of neurology by giving it the "robust" diagnosis of functional neurological disorder. He calls the category...
In Scotland, the emphasis is on cloth face coverings, not face masks. The use of language is trivial but it gets rid of the argument that it will...
Actually, the answer would be enterovirus but we don't talk about those. (also an RNA virus)
I just want to say that nobody ever tried to replicate this. The study was dismissed by SW because his study found depression was more likely...
In the epidemics it was active people who became ill, staff, not patients and in a teaching college the students became ill, the nuns did not....
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