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The Human/Animal Interaction of Chronic Fatigue
and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome: A Look At 127 Patients and Their
463 Animals
This article was discussed on the May 10th, 1998 CFS Radio Show with Neenyah Ostrom. In the show she describes a study done by Dr. Tom Glass showing the possibility that animals may be catching CFIDS from their CFIDS owners or possibly CFIDS patients may be catching CFIDS from their pets. If you are a pet owner and have CFIDS then you must read this article which was originally printed in the Spring Edition of the MPWC News and which is reprinted here in its entirety.
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CD4 lymphocytes from patients with chronic fatigue
syndrome have decreased interferon-¡ production and increased
sensitivity to dexamethasone.
Visser J., Blauw B., et al.;
The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1998, 177:451-4. An interesting research study recently appeared in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. It relates to patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and how they have a decreased production of interferon- ¡ , a very important part of the anti-viral immunity. These investigators studied 18 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, all of whom were documented to have myalgic encephalomyelitis or CFS and found that their CD-4-T-Cells produced less interferon-¡ than the cells from controls. On the other hand, the production of interleukin-4 in cell proliferation were comparable between the CFS patients and the control group. Since interferon-¡ is so vital to the anti-viral immunity it is of great importance that it has been shown to be significantly decreased in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. This observation, of course, needs to be confirmed by other researchers at other centers and in larger numbers of patients. It does, however, add another level of susceptibility to the chronic fatigue syndrome patient who already has underlying defects in the immune system such as the genetic defect within the antiviral pathway previously described by Suhadolnik. I recommend this highly interesting paper for your review and you can secure a copy by e-mailing your mailing address to rgm1@aol.com. |
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