ME

[woolley]

Why did it take so long for ME to become recognised as a disease?

[incitatus]

Probably professional inertia. But it must be said that the symptoms are so similar to many other diseases and syndromes, such as depression, hysteria, chronic viral diseases, that it required a lot of coordination of results to define the disease.

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