myalgic encephalomyelitis
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The 27-year-old was confined to bed all day, unable to chew food and no longer able to sit up - she was severely ill with myalgic encephalomyelitis, or ME, and as a consequence severely malnourished.
From BBC • Oct. 12, 2024
Participants were asked if a doctor or other health-care professional had ever told them they had myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome, and whether they still have it.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023
“It is essential to treat this disease seriously,” wrote Betty Scott, a doctor who had worked with myalgic encephalomyelitis patients.
From Slate • Jun. 26, 2023
A journalist at CNN, Prior has an illness strikingly similar to long COVID, myalgic encephalomyelitis, euphemistically known in the U.S. as chronic fatigue syndrome.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2022
For many doctors, the strange symptomology of long Covid calls to mind another mysterious, poorly understood condition: myalgic encephalomyelitis, more familiarly known as chronic fatigue syndrome.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2021
