I thought that the reference was in the Little Red Book www.imet.ie/imet_documents/BYRON_HYDE_little_red_book.pdf in which he refers to the...
Interesting to see that NESTA received is said to have received an initial endowment of £250million from the National Lottery. Never knew that was...
@ScottTriGuy I believe that Dr Hyde has written about those events before. As I recall it he previously went further on the subject of his...
Will all those who wish to take part in the trial to establish whether drinking pints of cider increases the chance of succumbing to ME, or...
There is also this intriguing reference; The strongest evidence, however implicates Coxsackie viruses. These are known to be myotropic, as in...
That is certainly how it felt. The further point arises when the switching appears to follow a particular pattern rather than being entirely...
No, I don't think it is that, although it may, temporarily, look similar.
I was struck by Jen's description of right sided weakness which apparently made her think of atypical polio. This symptom has been referred to by...
What @JenB has described seems to me a very good statement of the sudden, spontaneous, and, unfortunately, frequent relapse for which the term...
Yes, I get that, but it seems a little naïve and amateurish to be so blatant about it.
It would be interesting to know who it was that came up with the name PACE. Was it a committee decision, or did someone present thee idea to them?...
At least we now know why he gives us that sinking feeling. He gives himself it, too.
Hi @Nasim Marie Jafry Thanks for putting me right on that. For anyone interested in the complexities of the polio epidemics at a personal level...
I am not sure that anyone is saying that ME is atypical polio. There may however be a case for arguing that a subset of patients have their...
There was a reported case of an American who caught polio in Iceland in about 1955. His return home was followed by an outbreak of ME in his local...
This comment by Acheson is interesting: "What then is the link between this article (the 1959 one) and the present monograph? The key lies in the...
The feeling that I have about this is that there are quite a few of us here who started out with an illness very like the Ramsay defined ME, but...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2425322/?page=1 This paper by Parish describes the phenomenon at p713
This is the ME- pedia link about it but I think Ramsay said more in his book, which I no longer have. I shall see what I can find. I think Acheson...
Do you have any comment to make on the Iceland ME "epidemic" which appeared to confer upon those in the affected area immunity from polio in a...
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