Word: neurasthenia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knows how prevalent the illness is. Many doctors believe a plethora of past and present ailments, given such names as Royal Free disease, neurasthenia, myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic mononucleosis, are all forms of CFS. The first documented CFS-like epidemic occurred in Los Angeles more than 50 years ago, and a serious one struck 1,136 people in Iceland in 1948. A huge outbreak in 1984 affected as many as 100,000 people in the U.S., Canada and New Zealand, and fresh reports have popped up steadily since then. While CFS seems to strike young professionals with energetic life-styles...