Word: komaroff
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Dates: during 1987-1987
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...whether EBV causes fatigue syndrome or whether its presence merely reflects an immune system so weakened by another organism that it no longer keeps the virus in check. Two recent reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association failed to link EBV to fatigue syndrome. Harvard Researcher Anthony Komaroff, an author of one study, suspects that another virus, perhaps an "EBV mutant," will eventually prove to be the cause...
...Boston patients studied by Komaroff's team, 21% claimed to have suffered extreme exhaustion for at least six months. None had pre-existing organic illnesses that could account for their symptoms. The second J.A.M.A. paper, by Kaplan's CDC team, revealed that only 15 of 134 patients studied in the Lake Tahoe outbreak had "severe, persistent fatigue" of undetermined cause. The remainder either had symptoms that quickly disappeared, missed little or no work because of illness, or had other conditions that could have brought on fatigue...