HHV-6 New York Native Flashback #9

"A blistering attack upon 'CFS expert' Stephen Straus at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and [NIAID's] director, Dr. Anthony Fauci, is delivered in the January/February issues of CFIDS Chronicle. An editorial and two articles detail the inadequacies and mean-spiritedness that characterize Straus and the NIH's lame efforts to address Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS or Chronic Immune Dysfunction Syndrome CIDS). The charges leveled at Straus and the NIH appear to lay the groundwork for a class-action suit on behalf of people with CIDS. . . .The constructive action that the editors recommend is pressuring Congress to remove Dr. Stephen Straus from his position as 'CFS expert' at NIAID. Straus is the leading proponent of a 'psychoneurotic ' theory of CIDS, and his research attempts to establish that 'chronic fatigue syndrome represents a psychoneurotic condition.' "
  --Neenyah Ostrom, New York Native, April 3, 1989 

The New York Native 1980-1997

A 20th Century Newspaper of Firsts

1. First newspaper to break the story of AIDS.

2. First newspaper to make AIDS its signature story.

3. First newspaper the Centers for Disease Control leaked news of the discovery of what the institution thought was the "cause of AIDS.

4. First newspaper to do an in-depth interview with Robert Gallo.

5. The first newspaper to raise questions on a regular basis about Robert Gallo's so-called  "discovery," and to provide thorough coverage of the Gallo scandal.

6. The first newspaper to cover the scientists who found holes in the HIV theory of AIDS and who dared to criticize the powerful AIDS establishment.

7. The first newspaper to publish investigative reporting on AZT. 

8. The first newspaper to provide regular coverage of HHV-6, the "other AIDS virus."

9. The first newspaper to have a full time reporter covering the chronic fatigue syndrome epidemic.

10. The first newspaper to do investigative reporting on the intertwined nature of AIDS and chronic fatigue syndrome.

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