Can they be distinguished from the Post-Polio Syndrome?
by Dr E G Dowsett free at: http://www.ott.zynet.co.uk/polio/lincolnshire/library/dowsett/lateeffectsme.html M.E. sufferers are discouraged from donating blood/organs and research has demonstrated multi-system physical pathology – with SPECT and PET brain scans revealing physical tissue damage and severely reduced cerebral blood-flow made worse by exertion. Autopsies have confirmed such damage/infection. Some 240,000 adults and children are affected in the UK alone, a quarter of whom are severely affected and 10% of cases result in earlier death.2 Millions are affected worldwide and are a massive burden upon health, social security and insurance budgets. This cost is the real reason why ME/CFS sufferers have been subject to an outrageous political campaign of disinformation and attempts to label physical disease as the product of erroneous psychiatric belief. The chief assailant has been Professor Simon Wessely of Kings College London who, in spite of all the research evidence to the co
