More on the CFS-Polio Connection

From: Jane Colby jane.colby@tymestrust.org


MAY BE REPOSTED



ANNOUNCEMENT FROM
THE YOUNG ME SUFFERERS TRUST
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Hi guys. We are now officially in ME Awareness
Month 2008.

On Friday 16 May the Trust will be in North Wales
with the Clwyd ME Group, one of our Partner Groups
around the UK. If you can, come and meet us there.

Jane Colby is guest speaker at the Group's ME
Awareness Conference to be held at the Civic Hall,
Connah's Quay on 16th May. She will speak on the
polio/ME link, on the enteroviral work of Californian
virologist John Chia MD, who granted her an
interview for the forthcoming Colby Report, and on
the potential for a diagnostic test and treatment.


Excerpt from Jane's article in the Clwyd ME
Group's newsletter:

"Betty [Dowsett] had diagnosed me in 1985 and I
only became involved in writing about ME when she
asked me for help with children, and we became
colleagues. That was when I really started
investigating, and I discovered that in the 1950s an
epidemic of polio in Hawaii actually involved many
enteroviruses, not just one poliovirus as most
laymen had believed. Whoever heard of polio not
being caused by a poliovirus?

"It turned out that many of these polio cases were
diagnosed as non-paralytic polio - they didn't
paralyse people but it seems they did cause a
variation that was indistinguishable from ME - maybe
ME itself. I was intrigued, investigated further and
ended up writing the book [ME - The New Plague].
Frankly, I found it mind blowing."


ALSO COMING IN ME AWARENESS MONTH:

The Trust's new Alerts system. Be kept up to date
with all our news. Full information is in the ME
Awareness Month issue of Vision, out shortly.



Jane Colby
Executive Director
The Young ME Sufferers Trust
PO Box 4347
Stock  Ingatestone
Essex  CM4 9TE
Tel 0845 003 9002
www.tymestrust.org