#121~ CFSAC this week-Please Read~ THx♥

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CFSAC Demonstration NIH & CDC
ME/CFS Patients Advocate for Patients

Time:   
Tuesday at 8:00am - Wednesday at 5:00pm
Location:   
Holiday Inn Hotel Washington-Capitol
550 C Street, S.W.
Washington, DC
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ME/CFS Patients Advocate for Patients :
Email me at bobmiller42@msn.com if you will attend CFSAC for more details
Please SEND an email and let us KNOW you WILL attend either from HOME or in Person.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Nov. 8, patients with ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) will protest against 25 years of neglect by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. The protest will greet members of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee (CFSAC) just before they begin their bi-annual meeting at the Holiday Inn Capitol, Columbia Room, 550 C St. S.W., Washington D.C.
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Patients attending CFSAC Protest will be provided with Shirts and Props:
We will also have access to Wheel-chairs for those needing assistance
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Patients unable to attend CFSAC can be with us via the Web:
Make your own signs, shirts and Banners then post pictures on your own Facebook Page and on the Facebook Page for this Event.
We will update you with video from CFSAC as possible, Watch for updates on the websites that will be posting video & information:
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Contact via email the representatives from DHHS listed below starting after 5 pm on Nov.7th Eastern and by Nov. 8th. at 8 am Eastern, so we will have their undivided attention AT the meeting.
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TO:
nancy.lee@hhs.gov,
BCC:
howard.koh@hhs.gov, and at ash@hhs.gov,
wanda.jones@hhs.gov,
kathleen.sebelius@hhs.gov,
francis.collins@nih.gov,
afauci@niaid.nih.gov,
BCC: to me at hebs1reel@yahoo.com to track the numbers
Thank You !!

Let them KNOW you resent their descriminating against OUR RIGHTS to be able to access the meeting LIVE since SO Mamny of us have Sensory overlaod and Must turn the Audio DOWN and READ the closed captioning~
Have then NOT been listening to the Testimonies for the last many years ???
WHO are the DEAF ones here ?

1) Let them KNOW we will NOT be Silent for another 25 years and it's TIME to PUT these patients First and 2) get some ACTUAL Correct info out to the MDs that treat us out in the REAL World and 3) to start addressing the issue of Disability for those that have Fallen thru the cracks because of their 25years of lack of addressing this disease, 4) and time for the NIH 
to Fund some CLINICAL TRIALS NOW~
5) Treat those w/o Disability that have been sick for 20+ years and STOP this Genocide that is in it's 3rd Generation.. 6) and tell the FDA to leave our Supplements alone !!! 7) Adopt the 2011 CCCriteria for M.E. and 8) FIX that CDC website that is an International Embarassment and source of Abuse for aboit 15 million people.
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Those that are able to attend will do our part. We know you will Stand with us, YES ?
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Together we will move science forward,
United We Stand, Divided We Stay home for another 25 years.
So get your signs ready in Person AND ONLINE ♥ Thank you All
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Agenda – CFSAC Fall 2011 Meeting
November 8, 2011

9:00 am    (Eastern Standard Time, USA)
Call to Order
Opening Remarks

Roll Call, Housekeeping
Christopher R. Snell
Chair, CFSAC

Nancy C. Lee, M.D.
Designated Federal Officer
(Wanda's replacement)

9:10 am    International Classification of Diseases-Clinical Modification (ICD-CM)
                by Donna Pickett, RHIA, MPH
National Center for Health Statistics
10:00 am    Public Comment    Public
11:15 am    Break   
11:30 am     Welcome Statement from the  Assistant Secretary for Health   
                Howard K. Koh, M.D., Ph.D
12:00 pm     Agency Updates: AHRQ, CMS, FDA, HRSA    Ex Officio Members
1:00 pm    Subcommittee Lunch = Subcommittee Members
2:00 pm    Public Comment by Public
2:45 pm    Break   
3:00 pm      Future Interdisciplinary Research for CFS Utilizing a Variety of Scientific
Disciplines: lead by Gailen Marshall, M.D., Ph.D. and Committee Discussion
4:00 pm      Committee Discussion
Past CFSAC Recommendations    by Committee Members
5:00 pm    Adjourn     
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Agenda -- CFSAC Fall 2011 Meeting
November 9, 2011
9:00 am    (Eastern Standard Time, USA)

Call to Order
Opening Remarks

Roll Call, Housekeeping
Christopher R. Snell
Chair, CFSAC

Nancy C. Lee, M.D.
Designated Federal Officer
(Wanda's replacement)

9:15 am    HHS Office on Disability    Rosaly Correa-de-Araujo, M.D, M.Sc.,Ph.D
Deputy Director, HHS Office on Disability
10:00 am    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Webpage   
Eileen Holderman, Nancy G. Klimas, M.D., and Ermias Belay, M.D.
10:30 am    Break   
10:45 am    Agency Updates: CDC, SSA, NIH-Ex Officio Members
11:45 am    Minimal Elements for Papers-Leonard A. Jason, Ph.D.
12:15 pm    Subcommittee Lunch = Subcommittee Members
1:15 pm    Public Comment-Public
2:15 pm    Break   
2:30 pm    Committee Discussion
Finalize Recommendations by Committee Members
4:30 pm    Adjourn   

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INFO from the CFSAC below, proving they are NOT accommodating patients with "sensory overload" for this meeting that MUST "Read the captions" let alone those with "Hearing Disabilities." THIS is just ONE Reason we are Protesting.... NO LIVE VIDEO this time !!
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Audio Call-In Information
PLEASE Call in and SHOW them the NEED that we ARE Listening.. and we NEED the LIVE video!

The Meeting of the Chronic Fatigue Advisory Committee will be available via AUDIO Lines. The following call-in information will provide access to the meeting via audio lines:

Please dial the participant dial-in number:

Participant Dial-In Number: 1-(866)-395-4129

Please use the following passcodes for each day:
Passcodes:
Tuesday, November 8: 24756185
Wednesday, November 9: 24759937

Please note, each caller can press *0 at any time during the call to contact the operator for support.

There will be an operator on the line to welcome you and each caller will be asked their name and email address (this is NOT a requirement). You will be placed into the conference.

During the lunch hour, callers may hold the line or choose to call back to access the conference.

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#120~ Nevada Newsmakers Annette Whittemore Interview–Transcript

Following is the transcript of the October 26, 2011 Nevada Newsmakers interview with Annette Whittemore, for those of us that have difficulty with online video:

Sam Shad: There have been a lot of things swirling around and one of the reasons I wanted to have you on this program today is to clear up from what are rumor and innuendo to what are actual facts concerning the institute, and concerning the publication in Science Magazine of the study of a couple of years ago. Bring us up to date on exactly what’s going on. 

Annette: Well first of all Sam thank you so much for letting me come in and talk to you today because I know so many of the people out there that are suffering want to be reassured, and I think that that’s the most important thing today that we talk about from a very calm perspective of the work that is still going on at the institute. And you’re right, there have been, a lot of questions that have, that still remain unanswered about whether or not there is a retrovirus that’s associated with individuals who have this disease and many other diseases. And, I can just tell you that the work is still promising, that we are still headed down that direction very very methodically, and in an attempt to actually prove ourselves wrong. And so far we’ve been unable to do that when it comes to human tissue. But there’s several experiments that are left to be done, and so I can just say that we are still thinking along those lines, still looking very much at all pathogen possibilities, looking at the immune system deficits, and also characterizing the information. So, we’re very very much involved. There’s a study that will be starting November 1^st in which we will literally be testing one lab against the other, looking at different methods, and determining which methods are actually the most accurate when looking for pathogens such as a retrovirus. 

Sam: Now, when the article first came out in Science Magazine, the first study, since then, it wasn’t completely retracted. There was one person out of many that retracted a portion of their work. Could you explain that for us? 

Annette: That’s right. Dr. Silverman found in his laboratory that there was contamination of the samples that he had worked on, and therefore he removed his part, and I think he had one figure in this entire paper. However, there still is a lot of confusion about what we think we’re seeing in the actual patients. And what some of the doctors have described as XMRV, that was actually created in a laboratory. And so, at the end of the day, is there just one XMRV or are there several? And are we looking at a virus that’s completely different in our subset of patients versus the ones that were looked at in the tissues of prostate cancer. So far we’re saying “not completely different”… 

Sam: …and that was what was originally found.. 

Annette: Right, right. It was originally found in Dr. Silverman’s laboratory, and Dr. Silverman originally found it in prostate cancer. And the connection that Dr. Lombardi eventually they ended up looking at this together along with Dr. Mikovits and so it’s still an incredible puzzle. But we’re really excited about the fact that what has happened as a result of this has been so much more attention, so much more funding and a very very serious validation of this illness that just hadn’t occurred before the WPI came along. 

Sam: One of the things that I always like to refer to so the people who are not as familiar with this as we might be, that this is kind of like when they came up with, not a cure, but a way to control AIDS through the retrovirus. It wasn’t a one simple thing. It developed over many many years. And now, AIDS is not a death sentence. 

Annette: Absolutely, and it does take time. A process like this takes so much time to go from discovery to actual medicine within the doctors’ offices. But you know, that is what the WPI is all about. We are very much patient centered. We’re here to provide ultimate treatments that are going to be effective for patients, and we’re here to find the truth. So whatever it is, there..I have..I think we’re really trying to keep our egos out of it, and be able to say that t he most important thing, and to keep remembering it, is the patient, and getting effective treatments. So we need to understand exactly what’s causing the problems, and then we can figure out how to solve those problems. 

Sam: One of the problems is that in the field of medical research, there are tremendous egos. 

Annette: (laugh) yes. And it’s been very very difficult as a result. Sometimes the politics and the science…I think we talked about this before…can be extremely difficult. But in this case I really do believe, and I think the majority of people out there are very very sincere when they say that they’re concerned now about these patients. They’re concerned about getting these answers right, and we’re looking forward to working with them. 

Sam: Alright, let’s take a break. With Annette WHittemore when we come back. 

Sam: And back on Nevada Newsmakers we continue our conversation with Annette Whittemore. She is the founder and president of the Whittemore Peterson Institute. Your research director left who’d been on this program many times. What does this mean for WPI and who is the current research team? 

Annette: Well right now we are moving forward with the same research team that we’ve had all along, but I think a lot of people didn’t realize the depth of that team, and the number of people that are working there. So we’re still doing the exact same thing that we have been doing, in a very organized and collaborative fashion. We’ll miss Dr. Mikovits but Dr. Lombardi is stepping in and taking control, organizing and reprioritizing our studies. 

Sam: Now, you’ve been doing a lot of testing over the last couple of years for XMRV, so I mean, this is a real thing. It’s not that you’re testing for people and it’s not showing up. 

Annette: Well this is, absolutely. And you know, Harvey and I were always very very interested in continuing to ask that question every other month pretty much…is it real, is it infectious, has anybody changed their mind at the NCI, for instance. And I recently was up in Ottawa in a conference and asked two researchers up there, not ones that work with us directly. And they both said it’s real and it’s infectious. The question is, where is it in this population. Is it in this population of individuals, and more importantly, how do we develop the most accurate test that we can, so we can look at this particular virus. But I think again that we don’t want to limit ourselves to one particular virus strain, or one particular virus. We want to continue to keep looking at the question..is there an active retroviral infection in the patients that is coming from outside, rather than is there an actual endogenous or internal retrovirus that is becoming active. And you know this is exciting, it’s very very very complicated, and I don’t want to pretend at all to be a scientist. I get the, I’m so fortunate to be able to listen to all of this and be able to talk to you about it, but you know I’m a wife. 

Sam: You’ve become a sponge for this information. You’ve absorbed it and passed it on. But it’s interesting as time has developed now that you’re seeing that it may take more than one form. 

Annette: Absolutely. You know we see that, I like to tell some of the patients this, that we see the head … my understanding is that we see the head, we see the tail basically, if we were to see an animal…as a virus…but we don’t see the entire body. We’re not sure what’s going on, so the next step really is to get this material and get it deep sequenced so that we can fully characterize what it is that we’re seeing. 

Sam: One of the things, you know, in this economy obviously everybody’s taking a huge financial hit. But NV Energy, the power company in Nevada really stepped up to the plate with a huge donation. 

Annette: They absolutely did. They were phenomenal. Recently they donated a hundred thousand dollars to the cause. We’ve had Vivint and Chase Community Giving which are online community voting grant programs. I think we’ve raised about a hundred eighty five thousand dollars through that. And then just recently we had our fundraiser at the Atlantis. The Farahis who hosted that event were just phenomenal and they even donated back the proceeds from the event. 

Sam: That was here in Reno 

Annette: That was here in Reno, in September. I’ve got to say it was one of the best events we’ve ever had. There was so much love in that room. And even all the way down to the individual who came out from Nashville, Suzi Oravec, and gave her time, donated her time to provide music for all of us. It was an outstanding evening. 

Sam: Now, you started out as an ordinary mom. I shouldn’t say ordinary mom..a mom..
Annette:…Mom of 5 children 

Sam:…you were a spectacular mom. But your daughter Andrea contracted this. And when you were last on the program, you were saying that the treatments that are coming from the clinic are, were helping her. Is she still progressing in a good direction? 

Annette: She is. And you know we’re just really very very thankful that that’s occurred. And we’re trying very very hard to take a look at that, and Andrea thank goodness is willing to be a donor so that we can frequently check to see what are the differences between the times that she’s ill and the times that she’s well so that we can determine what is it exactly that’s going on, what are the treatments that are being most helpful, and why. We really don’t have all those answers yet. Those are things that we’re studying and I guess I’m just happy that she’s close by and she’s willing to donate her blood to that particular research. 

Sam: How are you being helped at this point by the National Institute of Health? Are they being helpful at this point? 


Annette: Well I think they are, because they’ve got a lot of researchers internally that are taking a look at this. And beneath all of the controversies that are going on in this particular virus, there’s some really good work. There’s some solid work that’s coming out. Not long ago there was a paper that said XMRV can infect neuronal cells for instance, or neurons, in the brain. And that was a key paper. I think there was a paper that also explained how easily it was transmitted, which would be, it’s very very unusual that a retrovirus could be transmitted potentially airborne. So there are some very interesting facts, and some good research is going on inside the NIH on this particular virus right now. 

Sam: Alright, so I always like to ask you to tell the folks out there who are watching, literally all over the world, what your advice is to them about where everything sits at this point in time. 

Annette: Well I think my best advice is to be able to remain calm, and to be reassured that the changes don’t mean that anyone’s going away, or that any way our commitment has been lessened. Or that the commitment of others has been lessened. In fact, it’s just the opposite. So there are more federal dollars today going into research in this particular disease. There are more individuals committed. An individual by the name of Glen Hutchins just committed ten million dollars to what he calls the Fatigue Initiative, and he’s brought new researchers into the field. Dr. Peterson has started a foundation and brought additional researchers into the field. So we’ve got some outstanding retrovirologists and virologists and immunologists that were never in this field before, that committed to helping us discover the answers. That is really the message… 

Sam: What’s your level of optimism over the next couple of years? 

Annette: Oh my goodness. I’ve got to say that we are making progress at a rate that is phenomenal. And ..on the one hand. On the other hand, we have to be patient. This is not an overnight process. I don’t expect it’ll take 20 years. I’m too impatient for that and I don’t think that’s appropriate. But it’s not going to happen tomorrow. So people need to sit back, take a deep breath, be reassured, and be hopeful. But, you know, let’s watch, let’s see what happens. Let’s be right about this. Let’s be good about this. 

Sam: That’s the most important thing, to be right about it. Always a pleasure. Thank you so much for being here.

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Reprinted with gratitude and permission from Khaly:
http://cfsuntied.com/blog2/2011/10/27/nevada-newsmakers-annette-whittemore-interviewtranscript/

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#117~ "The FINAL Betrayal"

Posted with the permission of the author Danny Ze-dog.

I'm too sick at the moment to start my own blog, and even if I had one I wouldn't be able to say what I'd really like to the way I'd like to.  But in light of months of following the scientific (and anti-scientific) developments in the XMRV story, and given that it is XMRV Blog Week, I feel the need to say something.  So here it is.

I don't know for certain whether XMRV and any related MRVs cause ME/CFS, or are co-causes or co-factors, but neither does any other scientist.  I don't know what role it plays in ME/CFS, but neither does any other scientist.

I know this: I will not spend the rest of my life sick or die young because some researchers and research journals made a political decision to "close the door" on the MRV-CFS association before it was appropriately investigated.  

I want a true replication study NOW.

I want 'science' journals to stop publishing negative studies by authors who haven't used clinically validated assays to detect XMRV.  I want 'scientists' to stop claiming that non-replication studies ARE replication studies.  I want any researcher, journal editor, or 'science blogger'  who claims that true replication isn't necessary in science to be forced to seek alternative forms of employment.  I want an investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services into why the NIH's tiny CFS grant review panel has turned down a series of grant applications by the WPI.

I want at least one sliver of justice for millions of sick people who have had none.  If nothing else, we should have the benefit of supposedly dispassionate, objective science.  We were raised to believe that science is the backbone of modern civilization, and the last pure thing left in a world rife with politics.  If we cannot even get THAT without political interference, then even the highest court of appeal is corrupt.  

For well over two decades we have trusted that, at some point, the system that was ostensibly built for us will finally work in our favor.  At what point do we decide as a community that it clearly will not?  And at what point will we protest en masse that our rights as citizens and as human beings are being denied by medical, "healthcare", political, and scientific establishments?

The most blatant recent example, and the most immediately crucial issue, is the organized attempt to bury XMRV-CFS research.  With whatever energy we have, we need to fight to stop that from happening.  NOW.  We need to let those who would bury it, or let it be buried, know that we will not tolerate this.  We need to let 'advocacy' organizations know that they should either support us in this endeavor or stop posing as advocates and get the hell out of the way.  We need to strategize ways that we as patients and their carers can have a real impact on the scientific institutions and policy-makers that are normally walled off from us, and on the media that increasingly serves only as a mouthpiece for the 'official sources' with the best media connections.  If the high-profile discovery of a potentially pathogenic gammaretrovirus that may infect at least 4% of the population can be whitewashed from the memory of science and history, so can - and will - that of any other pathogen, be it HHV-6, Lyme, or anything else. 

This isn't just an issue for people who support the XMRV hypothesis - it is an issue for everyone who wants good science to be done on this disease, now or ever.    
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"Well said" Danny, and Thank YOU for letting me post your statement here.. There is MUCH Truth IN it ♥

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#116~ URGENT- Get Out The Vote for WPI NOW !!

CRUNCH TIME IS HERE !!!

We NEED at Least 4,000 MORE Votes, folks !!

We are in 7th place ~ that will NOT do.........

In case you haven't yet looked under the rugs and rocks and begged every friend and friends of friends and every orgnization ou  have ever belong to ~ to Help us and if they Belong to Facebook to Vote for WPI for the Chase community Giving to Help us win the $500,000.00 that will be put towards research and develpoping treatments for millions of patients with the many neuro immune diseases.....

NOW is the time to do it, NOT Tomorrow...

The illnesses that all seem to be linked together under this umbrella include many things with ME/CFS being only ONE of them... and there are 17 million of them. Also included are those with Autism and Chronic Lyme Disease and Asperger's, Atypical MS, Fibromyalgia, and they have also been linked with many cancers including lymphoma and some cases of prostate cancer and breast cancer...

Anyone that CARES about Human Life should be VOTING "Right NOW" on Facebook for the Whittemore Peterson Insititute as they are the ONLY one in the Top 7 that has anything to do with Saving and healing Human LIVES that are in danger and people have been suffering for decades... and now a Generation !

While we are doing this, the President and Founder of the WPI, Annette Whittemore, and the Head Translational Medicine Researcher, Dr Judy Mikovits, have both been in the U.K. in London attending the 6th "Invest in ME" Conference whose sub theme this year is

International ME/CFS Conference 2011

The Way Forward for ME - A Case for Clinical Trials

but  before there can be clinical trials there must be MORE Research $$$ and as we all know thegovernments and states and contries are broke, so this Wonderful Opportunity to WIN this $500,000.00 must NOT be taken Lightly~ Please.. 

THIS IS HUGE 

Today the team went to Belfast for a Conference on Sunday and then they will be returning home on Monday... Please while they are away make them PROUD of us and what we did while they were away... There going around the world Literally to Help us..
Can we do Less to help them Help US ?

They have dedicated the LIVES to Helping us....

Can we not find ways to be EXTRA Creative these next few days to help get another 4,000 Votes ~ Please.. ?

The directions to help are Easy..
Here is a little paragraph that explains how and when you ask your friends and families to even ask their exteneded families and friends please ask them to watch this video that you can include. Here are the directions and the video link ...

Please Help MILLIONS with Neuro Immune Diseases "with 2 clicks."

Voting is open to anyone on Facebook. 

You can vote by going to http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving 
Click "like" then locate the Whittemore Peterson Institute by clicking on this link http://bit.ly/mrWckA and Simply VOTE.
Your vote will help them possibly WIN $500.000.00 for Research.

"Please share this" with others and Thx♥
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM8Hs1nuk5I

The government is spending $3.64 a year on just one of these co-infections called ME/CFS... is That what your life is worth ?

Ask Rober Miller, this was his testimony last week at the Federal CFSAC meeting:

Maybe you need to hear a few more testimonies about just this ONE co-infection and WHY we NEED this Research $$$  SO Desperately ~~~

In closing I will wrap up with one more video to show you that  people HAVE DIED FROM THIS Illness that is NOT all in their heads.. Please Help us by getting every teenager you know that is on Facebook to VOTE for WPI because children are getting these illnesses also... I know we can DO THIS but we must REALLY work HARD these next few days... PLEASE....

Remember although thesae videos might only be speaking about ME/CFS and XMRV, that the WPI is also helping Autism, Gulf War Illness ( get every Vet you know to VOTE ALSO) and chronic Lyme of which there are also Millions...

Lest we forget all of the lymphoma cancer patients and all of the families and lives effected by these illnesses which is a LOT MORE than Just the Patients...

PLEASE Remember we need a MINIMUM of another 4,000 Votes to WIN this...

If there are Millions of us sick, WHERE are these votes ?? Find Them Please ~

We BEG you..

More Research can NOT Proceed if we do NOT get this funding...

We must NOT let this Opportunity to Win this Grant slip right through our hands because we did not
"Get OUT The VOTE."
This is a Vote for our Very Lives..

Please everyone from Around the World...
Help us and Vote NOW on Facebook for the Whittemore Peterson Insititute for Neuro Immune Disease on the Chase Community Giving Contest...

Human LIVES are at Stake here...

Please do NOT Let a floral society beat us !! 

I love flowers but we must be alive to enjoy them also....

Thank YOU ♥

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#114~ CFSAC Testimony- Mary M. Schweitzer, Ph.D.

This will be the first of a few "Special Guest posts" I will make, with the permission of the authors, of their CFSAC Testimony for this May 2011 meeting. I am doing this in the hopes that many of you that are not even able to view the meeting on the web and don't belong to Facebook or a forum will be able to read these and know what we are telling the CFSAC. I am attempting to include a cross-section of the different testimonies so you will get to see the big picture of this illness and the dialogue that will be taking place May 10+11th, 2011, in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.





Testimony
Mary M. Schweitzer, Ph.D.

First, I want to thank Wanda Jones and this committee for giving us a chance to speak, and in particular, for livestreaming this meeting so that patients who cannot travel (which would be most of the ones I know) and patients who are housebound (which would encompass too many of those I know) can view the meeting from their homes, both in the United States and abroad.

I also want to thank Dennis Mangan, the NIH committee that I was privileged to be a part of, and all the participants, for the outstanding State of the Knowledge workshop on such short notice.

I want to focus on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today. CDC has been studying this disease for over a quarter of a century, and haven’t gotten very far. It is time that they caught up with 2011.
First I want to make clear that when I refer to CFS, I mean the Fukuda definition (1994), and when I refer to ME/CFS, I mean the Canadian definition (2003). When I refer to M.E., I use the Ramsay and World Health Organization definitions.

1. CDC’s Portrayal of the Disease
Suppose you broke your leg really badly. You knew it, your family knew it, your friends who were with you knew it. Somebody called emergency, and the ER techs came out. They had already been told by your family that you had a broken leg, but they said they had to find out for themselves. They came up to you and said, “Why do you think you have a broken leg?” Startled by the question, you said, “because it is obviously broken!” (Selfreported, one says to the other.) How about you stand up and we can see what’s going on with that leg. “NO!” you responded! “That’s going to hurt!” (Catastrophizer, they murmur among themselves. People who catastrophize about pain are more likely to feel pain.) Then they write a prescription for Prozac, say “Take this until you feel more comfortable about the prospect of standing up,” and they leave.

Now, of course that was a silly story. But it is exactly how I was treated by the first specialist I saw for this disease. “Self-reported” is an insurance term that is used by British psychiatric “experts” on CFS; and there is a published paper out there about CFS and fibromyalgia that uses the correlation between these diseases and fear of pain to conclude that people who fear pain are “catastrophizers,” and “catastrophizing” causes pain. There is a large body of psychiatric research on this disease that is just plain silly.

So don’t be surprised if patients are a bit worried about what researchers say about them, or what the government does about them. If you had a badly broken leg and nobody in the medical profession would believe you, you’d be a little cranky too. Indeed, when scientists injected lab monkeys with HHV-6, Variant A, the poor things hid in the corners of their cages looking supremely miserable, and one would drag his left arm and leg when they made him walk. Poor baby. Been there. At any rate, the scientists working with the monkeys said that they got a little cranky toward the end. No kidding.

Ever since CFS was abandoned by NIH, CDC has been the central agent of promoting views that are diametrically opposed to our experiences. For 25 years they have insisted this disease as caused by some sort of “stress,” – at first the stress of yuppie women “trying to have it all.” Today they claim the stress is caused by having been abused as children – but they’re still saying the same story. It’s just caused by an inability to handle stress.

Something else I have faced when coming here or when at a conference on my disease, is the phrase “Oh, I don’t believe that.” I recently wanted to talk with a well-respected virologist about HHV-6, Variant A, which I is a vicious disease, and which I have in both my blood serum and spinal fluid unless I am on Ampligen. The researcher stopped me as soon as the words came out of my mouth, “I have HHV-6, Variant A.” “Oh, no you don’t,” he said, cheerfully. “There’s probably just some artifact in your blood that makes it look as if you have HHV-6, Variant A.” That’s pretty much the same thing Stephen Straus said to me when I testified here twelve years ago about HHV-6, Variant A. And my response is the same now as it was then: I was part of a study of a handful of CFS patients conducted by Dharam Ablashi, the co-discoverer of HHV-6 and its two variants, while looking at samples from AIDS patients at NCI. Ablashi saw the virus in my lymphocytes. It was no artifact. But …”Oh, I just don’t believe that” is something I often hear. Hardly a scientific response, don’t you think?

In the meantime, we remain sick. So let me offer my first suggestion: if the approach hasn’t helped anybody with the disease in a quarter of a century, time to change the approach.

2. When is CDC going to begin to identify subgroups using biomarkers?
The Fukuda article from 1994 that gave us the most commonly used research definition also strongly urged CDC to begin identifying subgroups using objective biomarkers. That was 17 years ago. But if you look on CDC’s website, when they discuss biomarkers or microbes associated with The Disease, they always put them in the context of “The Cause” of CFS. No, that’s not the point, guys. A biomarker does not have to be “The Cause” to be useful. It just has to correlate. And when we are trying to identify subgroups, it doesn’t have to correlate with everybody who has ever had a diagnosis of CFS.

I belong to an identifiable subgroup. When in relapse off Ampligen, I have, among other things, immune biomarkers and activated opportunistic viruses. There is a
subgroup of patients who have precisely what I have, though I have more viruses than many, and some have viruses I don’t.

My immune biomarkers would be the 37kDA Rnase-L defect, which always shows up when I am off Ampligen and disappears when I go back on it, and natural killer cell dysfunction. During my most recent relapse, from September 2008 to the summer of 2010 (after having been on Ampligen for several months), I had a natural killer cell function of 2%. I also have an abnormal cytokine profile.
During relapse, I had active viruses in both my blood serum and my spinal fluid. I hold a flush in herpes viruses – Human herpesviruses 4-7. My relapses usually start with Epstein-Barr, which comes and goes while I am really sick. I test positive for active HHV6, Variant A, cytomegalovirus, and HHV-7. I also have Coxsackie B. I have friends who have parvo or an adenovirus, and I have friends who do not have HHV-6 or cytomegalovirus. As for the immune biomarkers, there’s a pretty strong correlation between those who were in cluster outbreaks and natural killer cell dysfunction.

I think we’re a subgroup, and I’d be very grateful if that could be recognized. The researchers who work with HHV-6 have been asking for years that Variant A and Variant B be recognized as different viruses, with one renamed HHV-9. CDC has turned a deaf ear to their research and requests. Intriguingly, Variant A is found in AIDS, CFS, and in the lesions of MS patients. Variant B, which causes roseola in children, is the virus that reactivates when patients are put on immunosuppressant drugs. While Variant B is endemic (it is the childhood disease roseola), in 90 percent of the adult population, Variant A is found in only 7 percent of the population. These are different diseases, but we need CDC to recognize that.
Finally, outside scientists at the NIH State of the Knowledge workshop strongly urged researchers to adopt the VO2 MAX score as an objective marker of the disease. Mine were significantly abnormal during the relapse – 14.5 – and even now, at 16, not a whole lot better. I have a lot of recuperating to do.

3. NCHS, within CDC, is overseeing the development of ICD-10-CM. We need to keep CFS in the same code as in ICD-10 – under neurology, at G93.3. That’s where it is in WHO’s index to ICD-10 – adopted by over one hundred nations. It’s also under G93.3 in the tabular versions of the clinical modifications produced by Canada, Germany, and Australia. It should not be placed in R53.82, under “vague signs and symptoms.” We would be the only nation to have CFS in R53.82. Why?

4. CDC needs to stop using British psychiatrists as consultants and guides to the definition and treatment of CFS. I am speaking specifically of Simon Wessely, Michael Sharpe, Peter White, and nurse Trudie Chalder. The latter is a specialist in “factitious illness” and “factitious illness by proxy.” Is THAT what CDC thinks of us and our disease?

It should be noted from the outset that the British psychiatrists do not use the Fukuda (1994) definition. They use the Oxford definition to diagnose CFS. The Oxford definition requires six months of debilitating fatigue and NO physical conditions that could explain that fatigue. Conversely, psychiatric conditions are NOT excluded from Oxford. I had an email exchange with Simon Wessely in 1996 when he told me that I did not have CFS because I have NMH and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. They also consider a failed Romberg test as exclusionary because it is a sign of neurologic abnormalities – in contrast to my original specialist, Dr. Marsha Wallace, who used my inability to pass a Romberg test as diagnostic for The Disease (as is also true for the Canadian Consensus Definition of ME/CFS.)
The British psychiatric view of CFS is that it is an “inappropriate illness belief.” That is why they prescribe Cognitive Behavior Therapy – not to help patients adjust to the disease, but – in their own words – to “reverse” the disease, to cure the disease. Graded exercise is recommended to get these poor women who have been deconditioned by their inappropriate illness beliefs back into shape and able to return to work and household.

Is THIS what CDC thinks of our disease? If not, why does CDC’s website suggest cognitive behavior therapy and graded exercise, perhaps with an SSRI added and something to help patients sleep, as the appropriate treatments for this disease? Why is there a direct link to the website for Peter White’s psychiatric practice at St. Bart’s hospital in England?

#113~ 2nd Chance: Pres. Obama Can you Hear Us ?

Pres. Obama, We want you on "Our Dream Team"
Please Help make Our Dream a Reality ♥


Hello everyone~


We NEED to Build Our PR "Dream Team"~ Let's start at the Top with this campaign, OK ?


The other day we the ME/CFS, Neuro-Immune Community of patients, family and care-givers have been given a "rare opportunity".. The wife of a ME/CFS patient actually "got the ear" of the President and a Promise from him that he would contact the NIH about ME/CFS when he got back to Wash. D.C.


So this request is for "ALL of you Everywhere" on ALL Continents, OK ?


OK, "NOW is our Perfect Time" for us to FLOOD President's "inbox" at The White House and make SURE that he either ACTUALLY gets to read one of our written letters, emails, faxes or phone calls, OR if Not then at least his  STAFF WILL Definitely KNOW  that We ARE out here.. and when he asks them to call the NIH, they will also tell him that he has been receiving TONS of correspondence from ALL of the Neuro-Immune Community regarding ME/CFS.


We have been give this chance and we must NOT waste it.. Especially when if we get our letters to him this next week, Send them ON April 29th, OK ?


That should give his Staff time to read all of them and get him something just in time before the 2 days of the CFSAC start on May 10+11th, and there will be a delegation of people (from the "early onset" ~ "Stand UP for ME" group with children meeting with Congressional members to "put some faces on this" on May 11th and Our International Awareness Day is May 12th.


Recent News and background~


Courtney Miller asked President Obama
"Q    Mr. President, my name is Courtney Miller .  And I want to thank you for returning science to the national priority.  And I need to ask for some help for my family.  My husband has chronic fatigue syndrome, which is an illness very much like multiple sclerosis.  And we spend billions of dollars in this country on roughly a million patients for disability and Medicare and lost tax revenue and lost productivity, and we spend less than $6 million for NIH research on this illness.  And I’m asking you for my husband and my kids, who want their father to be able to go to their baseball games, if there’s a way to make improvements on that."
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Answer snippets:
“I am a Christian and a person of faith and I believe that God gave us brains to figure things out,” Obama said when asked by a woman in the audience what his health policies could do to assist her husband who is suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. (1)


"Now, I will confess to you that, although I’ve heard of chronic fatigue syndrome, I don’t have expertise in it.  But based on the story that you told me, what I promise I will do when I get back is I will have the National Institute of Health explain to me what they’re currently doing and start seeing if they can do more on this particular ailment.  Okay? " (Applause.) (2)


Here is the video of that event:

Listen for his comment at about 11:45min. about medical research.
Courtney Miller is at around 47 minutes time,
asking Pres. Obama for funding for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome...




Why we are asking YOU ALL Now from ALL around the WORLD to Help us let him KNOW that this indeed IS a Worldwide PANDEMIC.. He needs to receive letters from all over the world, OK ? So USA, UK, Iceland, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Canada, Australia, New Zeland, Spain, everywhere you know there is ME/CFS please watch and understand WHY we want to FLOOD the White House with Mail so we can STAY "ON his Radar" and maybe we can Help him Understand that BY Helping US, it will SAVE the country and world's economies money because once well again and on meds like Magic Johnson, a basketball player he will know of , we can then get some jobs back, get our lives back, and will be HONESTLY "Happy to Pay Taxes" and not be broke or on disability any more...

This is also WHY we want to DO this~

How Mail is Handled at the White House.



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Talking Points for your Letters:

*** This Category of Neuro-Immune disease includes ME/CFS, Autism, Chronic Lyme Disease, Gulf War Illness, mitochondrial disease, and has also been linked to Atypical MS, and numerous cancers including an Aggressive Prostate Cancer, Lymphoma, 25% of Breast Cancer and can include many serious conditions such as MCS Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, OI/POTS Orthostatic Intolerance/ Postural Orthostatic Tachycardic Syndrome, which drops your Blood Pressure in half when you stand up and makes your heart work 4 times harder to help circulation so it can pump nutrients and oxygen to your body and BRAIN, otherwise you will pass out in 5 min if standing STILL . They also usually become VERY sensitive to many meds which makes even treatments harder. It's a complete long term progressive disease that devastates families, while it bankrupts them and the insurance companies DO NOT pay for any tests that are required and thus they pay for NO Treatments... What's wrong with THIS picture ?

*** The CDC must be made to IMMEDIATELY change their website so that will include testing for the co-factor infections many of us have, like EBV, HHV6, etc. Eliminate the Treatments of GET + CBT, because it has been PROVEN that for many of us with OI/POTS "any GET" is yes Literally Harmful to us..and the ONLY CBT that we need is what Dr Lucinda Bateman of Utah uses which is to "teach us the limitations of what we can and should NOT do living within the confines of our illness so we do NOT do anything to cause us to be worse or cause will cause us to Flare or Crash."

Please check with Dr Chris Snell, Current Chair of the CFSAC with regards to the P.E.M. (Post Exertion Malaise) and his Stacey Protocol for testing us for this that has been legally accepted in courts to PROVE that this exercise hurts us and causes us cardiac harm, and also check with Dr. Leonard Jason, CFSAC member who along with Snell testified at the NIH State of Knowledge ME/CFS Workshop April 2011 and also validated that we do NOT have ME/CFS because we are Depressed. Quite the Opposite actually. Thus the CDC MUST be made to Change their TOO Inclusive numerous changes made to the Original Definition to what CFS meant when First "coined" when the symptoms listed matched MUCH MORE the Canadian Case Criteria Definition which if you check with the Dr's that have been treating the serious patients for 20+ YEARS..  THAT is what we Truly HAVE... is ME.


And Yes, Dr Cheney found spots on the brain scans he did on his patients in the 1980s that matched the spots on the brains of HIV patients.. which again tends to lean towards evidence of a retroviral connection.. The CDC's insistence that a disease will recognize a countries boarders is about as 18th Century medicine as I have seen ~ WAKE THEM UP ~ Please... They are currently an insult to this Country.
They are sent Positive samples of Positive Viruses and "Can't Detect CR*^", as far as we feel. It's Truly embarrassing...

*** Please let him know that there are also 7 cohorts in 7 countries, tested by different labs, that have also tested Positive for the 3rd Human Retrovirus, and there has been NO definite other reliable research done to PROVE that this is NOT an actual human pathogen or why thousands of people ARE sick with this retrovirus and other co-infections of which ME/CFS is one, and that these people "NEED Clinical Trials NOW," NOT in 3 yrs or when ever the Lipkin & other studies are done... These people Testing XMRV+ "HAVE are retrovirus AND co-infections" and that alone SHOULD automatically make them eligible for Some sort of Help~ immediately !!

***One year has already passed since even the Emory University published a paper that listed numerous ARVs that could be already considered for usage for those with XMRV/HGRV. That was a YEAR ago ~ Where's the Clinical Trial... We have been sick FAR too long already with NO medicine from anyone!!

*** "Anyone Positive for XMRV and just one co-infection" should be immediately eligible for 'Care and 'Caid/'Cal and compassionate care should be granted to them IMMEDIATELY !!. TOO many of them have been sick and denied any medical care or coverage for 20+ years due to lack of research, postponement of research, diverted research funding, esp. since a retrovirus had been linked back in 1990 and because the CDC chose to not pay for 2 plane tickets they shot down the research and let it die.. NOT Again. !! All care, all meds, all long term care and hospice, the same as the HIV/AIDS patients get. Deja VU all over again 20 years later ~ NOW on the 3rd Generation.. Shameful and WorldWIDE.

***$150 Million NOW, for research that includes the Whittemore Peterson Institute, of course, with "non-blinded" clinical trials of any patients that "test positive for XMRV and one-co-infection" ...paid for the same way HIV patients get their meds (whatever that is)...'Caid? 'Care?

**** "A Separate NIH SEP for XMRV and all it's

co-infections" is a necessity given the 30 year neglect that the CDC has given these millions of Americans, the fact that there are estimated to be 10 million asymptomatic XMRV carriers in the USA alone either donating it into the Public Blood Supply or passing it on via bodily fluids, that is IF it is ONLY Infectious and not Contagious which has NOT been confirmed YET. Get ME/CFS and XMRV "OUT" of the CDC... they can't detect anything.


*** For goodness sake's Educate the Doctor's that are ON the Front Lines as right now they KNOW NOTHING and all they do is want to give us anti-depressants when we are NOT Depressed, except for the ACT that they do NOT Believe us cuz NO ONE has Educated them... This was a HUGE Point made at the NIH State of Knowledge Workshop April 7+8th.


***Educate the Dr's that XMRV/HGRV's ARE indeed Retroviruses and they should have continuing CME Units Immediately REQUIRED so that they "do NOT tell" their patients that a "Positive XMRV Serology" means they do NOT have this retrovirus IN the DNA "For LIFE". Dr's should NOT give test reports unless they KNOW the Seriousness of what the heck they are telling their patients.. The peer-reviewed "Science" published paper that announced the CFS link with XMRV was in Oct. 2009, yet in Dec. 2010 my Dr STILL did NOT know ? Must they wait for a Personal Telegram ? In the USA I finds this appalling. Do they not have required Yearly CME's that required ?

*** This also is Important as it effects not only the adults but "the SICK CHILDREN effected" and being taken awake from their parents (which is SINFUL) but the (DSS) (at the age of almost 17 years old ) and placed in their custody in January of 2009.... because they they then blame the parents for Munchausen By Proxy when they have NOTHING Else to resort to and THIS is but ONE recent example even those they have even had Help from Dr. David Bell, Dr. Paul Cheney (25+yr EXPERTS in this disease) and after 25 years THIS OF> Proof that This is STILL going on and it MUST STOP !! My goodness, Dr. Bell went thru this back in the late 1980's and it took him 10 years of legal court battles to get back one child home to their parents and the money wasted was not spent to help the child's health in the meantime. Sinful. Because of Lack of Knowledge and education about this illness.
http://www.bringingryanhome.com/


Pres. Obama would YOU want Shasha and Malia taken away from YOU if they were sick just because the Dr's could not help them YET or had not been educated YET ? This IS INSANITY !!


***Given the Family Trees that are showing up now cuz we Literally ARE on our 3rd Generation of this set of neglected illness by the CDC that continues to tell us "It's ALL in our Head"~ Please have a look at what the first evidence of Family Tree medical history is showing re: descendant generations......

In each of the 6 clusters, the top 2 are the parents with the children underneath them. LIGHT BLUE = FIBROMYALGIA, DARK BLUE = CFS, GREEN = AUTISM. Under each shape is their XMRV result. V= virus found in culture, 
Av = antibody test, NT=not tested


Family 1, upper left corner – One parent XMRV + for virus by culture and XMRV + for antibody, one parent XMRV + for the antibody. Neither parent symptomatic. Child with Autism, XMRV + for the virus.


Family 2, top row, middle – One parent with CFS and XMRV+ for antibody. Two children with Autism; one XMRV+ for virus by culture, one XMRV+ by antibody.


Family 3, upper right corner – One parent with CFS and XMRV+ for virus by culture. Child with Autism, XMRV+ for virus by culture.


Family 4, bottom left corner – One parent with CFS and XMRV + for virus by culture. Two children with Autism, both XMRV+ for virus by culture.


Family 5, bottom row, middle – One parent with CFS, Fibromyalgia and XMRV+ by antivody. Child with Autism, XMRV+ for virus by culture and by antibody.


Family 6, bottom right corner – One parent with CFS and XMRV+ by antibody. Child with Autism, not tested for XMRV.


A quick summary regarding families. Confirmed here, there is XMRV in children under the age of 5. To date they have confirmed XMRV in 16 of 17 families with Neuro-Immune disease amongst multiple members. Finally, that more work needs to be done to confirm pathogenesis and transmission.

*** "I'm worth more than $3.64 a year"

That was the TOTAL that has been spent on Research for the patients with ME/CFS over the past decade and until the patients got Vocal enough because it was costing our lives and families and countries TOO MUCH, we just FINALLY had the First Ever NIH State of ME/CFS Knowledge Workshop that show many of the FLAWS and Gaps and blind spots and ways that time and money has been wasted. It's TIME
to Get Serious President Obama.


STOP the Generations of Ignorance, Lack of Serious research, and to Help ALL of these people, Help get treatment for those with the retrovirus and Get the FDA to Pass Ampligen as it is our ONLY thing that has helped so far.. until someone does further Quality Research.. 
TOO Much time has passed.. 

This IS effecting the children...

What would The First Lady suggest be done I wonder ?

CFS History~
How an old disease got a New Name

Presidential Contact Info: 
Please use as many as you Can, OK? 
Put them IN the mail NO matter where you ARE
on either April 29th or May 1st, OK?


Mailing address:
President Barack Obama
c/o The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500


President's email: 
"Pres. Barack Obama" president@whitehouse.gov

White House Phone Number: 
202-456-1111 (EDT)

FAX: 202-456-2461 (24hours)

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reference articles:
(1) http://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/21/obama-invokes-his-faith-and-a-g-in-nevada-town-hall/

(2) http://www.rgj.com/article/20110421/NEWS/110421028/Update-Obama-ends-talk-Reno?odyssey=nav%7Chead

http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/latest-national/23735-remarks-by-president-obama-in-a-town-hall-in-reno-nevada.html

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/04/obama-will-root-out-manipulation-of-gas-prices/1

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2011/04/_washington--i_drove_by_a.html

#110~ The EYES of the World Have it- NIH SoK

2011 NIH State of Knowledge reCap

There WERE people watching from ALL Over the World in all time zones  via LIVE webcast even as after the 2 FULL days a midnight possible
Government Shut-down was looming near...
Dr. Francis Collins, Head of the NIH was in attendance.


Monroe from the CDC was afraid he would miss his plane ~
...a joke that was NOT wasted on the patients that already
KNEW the CDC's history as they dismissed and discarded the First Discovery of a retrovirus connected to ME/CFS 20 years ago by Dr Elaine De Frietas and chose to let it go UnResearched for the mere monetary cost of the 2 airplane tickets they would not buy to Validate the Discovery.
Meanwhile "The Band Plays ON"...


For those that missed the 2 day webcast
NIH- State of Knowledge ME/CFS Workshop
a few things were made very clear..


Here are a few short videos of some of the highlights..


It is now Painfully Clear that there are 2 separate camps now battling
~ one 4 the patients that are XMRV+ and have one or more co-infections,
and those that are ignoring multiple positive labs and thousands of patients XMRV+ over 7 cohorts around the world in 7 different countries.


One camp calls for MORE Research on XMRV and providing treatment for the patients that are already testing positive.


The other camp could care less about the suffering of the patients testing positive for the 3rd Human Retrovirus + one or more co-infections.. and they are calling for XMRV research to STOP.


I ask you~ if people have already grown antibodies for something they have had for 25+ years.. way before any lab contaminated anything... WHY can these patients NOT receive some treatment ? The fact that they had already pre-exisiting antibodies proves that their body had already been fighting the 3rd Human Retrovirus before and labs or scientists started arguing over it. Many have been sick since the 1980's NOT after your 1992 date.


NOT to treat them is tantamount to medical negligence and the medical profession WILL be held accountable and the medical health agencies NOT allowing treatments to be given to these patients will also be considered guilty of inhumane treatment of patients that have been very sick for Far Too Long and ignored by you. You will be held accountable for their suffering and for causing them HARM by your Lacking to Act now that6 you have been Formally Informed~ Period.
You can NO Longer play ostrich while the World watches....


As is stated in some of the videos here below~
This lack of treatment is INSANITY.
The CDC even states that HIV does not cause AIDS.
that AIDS = HIV plus one of 25 co-infections..
Even if you only have HTLV-1 and present as "sick" you can receive treatment...
Thousands of patients are testing XMRV+ and have numerous co-infections.
WHY are they NOT receiving some treatment NOW ?
Many have waited 25+ years and we are on the 3rd generation of people
dying from this illness.


The World is appealing to you..
If not NOW, when ?
How many MORE Generations must get sick and die
BEFORE you will give them Treatment ?


Keep researching for something else if you want,
but for Gosh Sakes HELP THESE PEOPLE and
Treat them NOW !!!
To NOT Treat them is a Crime against Humanity~ Period.


The ONLY thing they are depressed about is your ignorance and refusal to treat them with respect and give them appropriate medical treatment.


If a patient has Cancer do you give them an antidepressant ?
WAKE UP and Treat them with adequate medicine to Help them...


There are many in the medical profession that have this illness now and even they are ashamed of the way the current medical professionals are acting..
Especially when the GPs do not know the difference between a rhinovirus and a retrovirus. What med school did you go to?
Med School for Dummies ?

HOW MANY MORE MUST SUFFER AND DIE BEFORE YOU WILL LIVE UP TO THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH AND "DO NO HARM" BUT RATHER STOP PLAYING OSTRICH AND HELP THESE PEOPLE ??

If you do NOT Provide treatment to those that are XMRV+ with co-infections you are Guilty of letting "The Band Play ON. AGAIN...

Hemophaeliacs be warned, they are NOT screening or cleaning the blood supply.

Anyone receiving a transfusion, "Bank UP your own blood donations" so you can receive your OWN Blood if you are planning an elective surgery like a knee or hip transplant... and Make SURE you tell them to KEEP your Blood for YOU ONLY until AFTER your surgery !!

As one Dr was quoted~ "If this was HIV it would be 1983 now."

For those NOT Familiar with the history behind the Fight for HIV and the blood supply please watch this clip and then you will see for yourself how INDEED~
"And the Band Plays On" is taking place ALL over Again...

Those with XMRV and a co-infection do Not  even HAVE a Name YET !!! yet it Kills....

Here is Dr. Leonard Jason's GOOD case definition for ONLY those with
actual ME/CFS because they Get Post Exertion Malaise and are NOT Depressed.
They are just VERY Sick and want their Health and Lives back.
While they are arguing over symptoms Millions are just trying to Stay ALIVE !
Even so more varied discussion takes place..



The following 3 patients are ONLY able to be there and testify because they
traveled across the country to receive the ONLY drug under clinical trial that is ONLY offered in 2 locations and costs $12,000 plus expenses for 6 months.
That buys "some of them" 3 years if it helps them them must start over and repeat.
They speak for the thousands of us that are in the 20-30+ year group and need Help NOW.


Please note the decrease in funding and grants approved in the last decade while patients are getting sicker, and the 3rd generation is getting infected.
Pat Fero:



Robert Miller:
Answering the Question: What kind of help/treatment do you want for which symptom?
(BTW~ This is NOT A woman's disease !!)
Retroviruses do NOT CARE what sex or race you are !!



Mary Schweitzer presents the list of her co-infections and makes a case for
treatment NOW~ Adults AND Children and Educate the Gen. MDs and Public.
What part of Serious and Urgent do you NOT Understand ?



Dr Judy Mikovits also makes a Case for Treating those infected with XMRV ~NOW !
They can not WAIT another 3 years...



We ask you- WHAT will the COST be if you do NOT choose to Treat these patients?
Are you waiting for their Families to sue you?
Give them Treatments NOW~
They WANT to work and pay takes and have their Lives back..
Many were professionals that can Help society again and our economy
if you will only treat them with compassion and respect.
Treat them while you work to STOP this PANDEMIC !


The Cerus Intercept System CAN clean the Public Blood Supply.
What are you waiting for
Everyone to Die and go AWAY ?
That will NOT Happen because new generations are getting infected.
Get a Clue and WAKE UP~
President Obama we Beg you... Help them get Treatment NOW. Please.


Look how good Magic Johnson is doing on treatments...
Why do you NOT want these professionals to be working and paying taxes ?
Why do you WANT them to Suffer and bankrupt their families ?
If you not choose to Help then you ARE Part of the Problem.
It's TIME to Lead, Follow or "Get OUT of the WAY" of their Treatment~ Period.

Is this AIDS 2.0 ??

What ever you do, no matter where you are, if you have ME/CFS or XMRV, or care for someone that does, or know someone that does, PLEASE write a letter THIS Week  to cfsac@hhs.gov by Sunday, April 17th to speak on their behalf and let your concerns KNOWN so they can be received and Let Your Voices HEARD at the next CFSAC Meeting May 10+11th, (webcast LIVE) with the day after being our International May 12th Awareness Day Worldwide. 

The world Thanks You ♥

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