Where is the legitimate research being conducted?
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has been awarded $1.2 million in first year funding to establish three CFS Cooperative Research Centers in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Colorado. The centers will conduct basic science and clinical investigations into CFS and allow new theories and observations about the disease to be more easily evaluated. The 4-year awards to the new CFS centers will compliment other NIAID-supported research into the syndrome that has been ongoing since 1980. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is doing a surveillance program in four cities: Wichita, Kansas; Reno, Nevada; Atlanta, Georgia; and Grand Rapids, Michigan. At each location, family practitioners, internists and rheumatologists are being asked to participate. The objectives of the surveillance system are to establish incidence estimates for CFS in the general population and to gather detailed information about the epidemiology of the onset of CFS, clustering of symptoms and
