Exhaustive Chronic Fatigue Study Points to Infectious Driver
- NIH study reveals mechanisms that may help find treatments
- Fatigue research gains urgency as Covid leads to more cases
The debilitating condition — now affecting scores of long Covid sufferers — remains a mystery.
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Chronic fatigue syndrome may begin with an infection that never goes away.
The debilitating condition — now affecting scores of long Covid sufferers — remains a mystery. An exhaustive new study from dozens of researchers across the US National Institutes of Health, however, traces its potential genesis to the lingering effects of pathogens that can alter brain function and the immune system.