Volume 2 Issue 3 - June 2007

by Giovanni Maciocia

From a western perspective chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), which used to be called M.E. (myalgic encephalomyelitis), is a relatively new disease and it is unclear what the causative agent might be. Indeed, in Western medicine there is no general agreement that it is a separate disease at all. Even its name is not generally agreed upon as it is variously called ‘post-viral syndrome’, ‘chronic post-viral fatigue syndrome’, ‘chronic mononucleosis, ‘chronic Epstein-Barr virus disease’, and, especially in the USA, ‘chronic fatigue immune deficiency syndrome