Has anyone successfully used acupuncture fo r the treatment of Ross River Virus symptoms?
You present an interesting question. The reasoning I see is Ross River Virus can produce, in a small number of cases, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome symptoms, which is thought to have a hypothalamic-pituitary axis (HPA) and neurally mediated hypotension (NMH) connection. Would acupuncture modify this? … Ross River Virus is being studied as one of the possible causes of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), but has only been found to produce symptoms in 12% that are similar. The surest thing we can say at the moment about CFS is there appear to be multiple causes and we just do not know exactly what we are dealing with beyond the symptoms. “Infectious Agents Due in part to its similarity to acute or chronic infections, CFS was initially thought to be caused by a virus infection (i.e., Epstein-Barr (EBV) mononucleosis). It now seems clear that CFS is not caused exclusively by any single recognized infectious disease agent. CDC’s four-city surveillance study found no association between CFS and inf
