Is a Virus the Cause of Fatigue Syndrome?

[Nick Theodorakis]

Could a virus be the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome?

A study published last week in the journal Science suggested that might be the case, reporting that many patients who had the syndrome were infected with a recently discovered virus. ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/he...atigue.html?em

The virus in question is called xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV), a virus closely related to a retrovirus that causes cancer in mice, as the name implies.

Nick