Is CFS related to AIDS?
Enough is known about the mechanisms of both diseases to say that they are not the same. The fact that they both seem to involve the immune system, and that some not-fully-researched viruses might have some effect in both, have caused a few people (notably Neenyah Ostrom, a writer for the New York Native) to speculate that there is a common mechanism. The facts that CFS has no correlation to HIV nor shows any AIDS-like breakdown of the immune system shows that these illnesses are not the same. It is nonetheless true that the broad family of immune-related illnesses are becoming increasingly important in these times.
