myalgic encephalopathy

/ maɪˈældʒɪk ɛnˌsɛfəlˈbpfɪ /

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Formerly called: myalgic encephalomyelitis.��Also called: chronic fatigue syndrome.�� ME.��a condition characterized by painful muscles, extreme fatigue, and general debility, sometimes occuring as a sequel to viral illness

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It was filed in 2017 against virologist Ian Lipkin and Columbia by Lipkin’s former collaborator, Mady Hornig, a physician who, like Lipkin, studies the possible role of viruses in chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalopathy and other neurologic diseases at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health.

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