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No one knows the cause of this ailment. Currently, no lab results can conclusively test for it. There is no approved treatment — let alone any kind of cure — for this health problem.
Some doctors actually refuse to believe that the condition exists. But those doctors are wrong. In fact, research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) currently estimates that more than 3 million Americans suffer from the problem.
As medical mysteries go, it’s hard to find a more puzzling condition than chronic fatigue syndrome. Researchers continue to strive to discover its causes and effective treatments. Here’s what the science says about the illness.
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While descriptions of people mysteriously suffering from prolonged fatigue have existed in medical literature for centuries, the condition we now identify as chronic fatigue syndrome was first defined in 1988, although that definition ...
