XMRVWIKIMEDIA COMMONS
The presence of a mouse leukemia virus is not correlated with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), according to a study published today (September 22) in Science. The study, just one of many in the last year that have discredited the relation between the two, is accompanied by a partial retraction of one of the original papers to propose such a link.
“For most of us, the final nail [in the coffin] came a long time ago!” said Myra McClure in an e-mail, an Imperial College London retrovirologist who first questioned the link between the virus and CFS, but was not involved in the new study. “However, the way this study was conducted (same samples investigated under controlled conditions in different laboratories) should convince all.”
In 2009, ...
