For more than a decade my newspaper, New York Native, warned New York and the rest of the world that HHV-6 was the key to the AIDS epidemic and was causing all kinds of other problems like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and cancer. The New York Times and the rest of The media mocked my newspaper and was happy when it went out of business.You can read the story of my newspapers struggle to get the word out about HHV-6 in Truth to Power.
Is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Associated Kaposi's Sarcoma (CFSKS) a diagnosis all doctors should become aware of?
Another HHV-8- associated condition, the KSHV inflammatory cytokine syndrome (KICS ), has been more recently described. 48-50 Patients with this syndrome display MCD-like inflammatory symptoms, but do not have pathological findings of MCD. Patients with KICS are frequently critically ill and demonstrate marked elevations in IL-6 and IL-10, as well as high plasma HHV-8 viral loads. KICS may contribute to the inflammatory symptoms seen in some patients with severe KS or PEL, and there may be significant clinical overlap between these conditions. https://aidsinfo.nih.gov/guidelines/html/4/adult-and-adolescent-opportunistic-infection/342/hhv-8 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients may have undiagnosed internal Kaposi's Sarcoma. Prevalence in the Cerebrospinal Fluid of the Following Infectious Agents in a Cohort of 12 CFS Subjects Susan Levine Published online: 04 Dec 2011 ABSTRACT Over the last decade a wide variety of infectious agents has been associated w...
