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provides numerous case histories that cannot be bettered as teaching material; (3) Postviral Fatigue
Syndrome; A Melvin Ramsay; published by Gower Medical Publishing, London, 1986; reprinted as Myalgic
Encephalomyelitis and Postviral Fatigue States; Gower Medical Publishing, London, 1988 (recently re‐issued
by the UK ME Association); (4) The Disease of a Thousand Names: Chronic Fatigue / Immune Dysfunction
Syndrome; David S Bell; published by Pollard Publications, Lyndonville, New York 1991; (5) ) Post‐Viral
Fatigue Syndrome; edited by Rachel Jenkins and James Mowbray; published by John Wiley & Sons,
Chichester 1991; (6) Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Body’s Immune Defense System; Roberto Patarca‐
Montero; published by Haworth Medical Press, 2002; (7) Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – A Biological
Approach; edited by Patrick Englebienne and Kenny de Meirleir; published by CRC Press, 2002.
No‐one who is aware of this wealth of information can credibly doubt the reality, the validity and the
devastation of this organic multi‐system disease.
Acknowledgements
Many people have been involved with and contributed to this Report.
Although they seek no recognition, I acknowledge with gratitude the unfailingly generous help of many
members of the ME community including clinicians, medical scientists, researchers, research analysts,
patients and their carers, all of whom have made significant contributions.