Chronic Fatigue/Fibromyalgia may be from Virus

A recent French study has found detected genetic material from 'enteroviruses' in 13 percent of muscle biopsies from patients with fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue syndrome and 20 percent of patients with chronic inflammatory muscle diseases. Healthy volunteers had no such viruses.

This finding suggests that some cases (but probably not all cases) of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue may be related to long-term viral infections. Many patients with these disorders are also depressed; and they are sometimes misdiagnosed.

Read more in this Reuters summary: Virus Seen in Muscle from Chronic Fatigue Patients