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Virus Disproved as Cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Campers stand at the edge of the water at sunset watching the stars come out, with the CanLyme logo floating in the foreground.

The saga of the retrovirus XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome appears to have ended, now that researchers in a federally funded study said they found no relationship between the retrovirus and the illness.

The controversy dates back to 2009, when a paper in the journal Science found a possible connection between chronic fatigue syndrome and XMRV. A retrovirus is a kind of virus that copies its own genes into a host’s DNA.

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