Dr. William Reeves of CDC/CFS MUST be removed now: Virus was first found in 1991.
Dr. William Reeves of the United States CDC/CFS program MUST be removed and replaced with someone acceptable to the CFIDS community NOW. The latest study on XMRV, the fourth human retrovirus recently discovered, provides further evidence that CFIDS is in fact a "real disease" and not a psychocrap illness that Reeves, his CDC associates, and his contractors can not refute. Reeves and his associates should be prosecuted by the law and put in jail for their deliberate destructive activities during Reeves time as the head of the CDC/CFS program. Investigations have been under way by the Inspector Generals of the CDC, NIH and DHHS. We have also requested that Reeves and the CDC be investigated, yet again, for possible funding issues with the CDC/CFS contractors (Emory University Mind-Body Program and ABT Associates). We do expect that Congressional action will begin soon.
Reeves and his CDC associates MUST BE REMOVED NOW. Enough is enough. The damage that this greedy, stupid man has done to millions of sick people is beyond criminal. Reeves is directly responsible for thousands of deaths to heart disease, the cancers that are seen in high proportions in the CFIDS population, and the suicides of those that could no longer "live" a life of pain and despair. Those that took their own life were not weak or mentally ill. Instead, they were so sick and with no where to turn and no one to believe them or help them saw no choice but to end their own suffering. Thousands of deaths sit on the head of Dr. William Reeves.
If you have any extra money, please go to the Whittemore Peterson Institute website at http://www.wpinstitute.org and donate what you can so that REAL and effective research into CFIDS can continue. We can NOT depend on the CDC as they have done nothing but demean and damage the CFID sick over the last three decades. The CDC/CFS/Reeves have wasted $150 million dollars and two generations of lives (about 30 years) while the Whittemore-Peterson Institute has made massive progress in just two short years and with about one million dollars in funding - this from a tiny lab and one room office. It is going to be outside research that provides the cure for CFIDS, NOT the CDC. Please donate to this wonderful research institute - one that was in fact started by a Mother because her daughter was so ill with CFIDS. When a Mother is involved in the health of her child (and other "children") you KNOW it will succeed - and the WPI HAS indeed succeeded brilliantly.
See Hillary Johnson's website on CFIDS and the damage done by the CDC from the very first outbreak in Incline Village, Nevada more than two decades ago. Yes, those people are still very sick and permanently disabled - many are dead from the cancers most commonly found with CFIDS sick. http://www.oslersweb.com/
You will also read that this virus may have been discovered by a female reseacher at the CDC around 1991. The CDC did nothing with this research and her career was damaged. HAD the CDC bothered to look into her work back in 1991, millions of people, both here in the US and worldwide, would NOT be so sick, disabled, and in too many cases - dead from those cancers associated with this new virus. Recognize that this virus is believed to be contagious and that means that anyone - everyone is a possible target for this disease. I have lived with CFIDS for 15 years and my life has been pretty miserable. I truly wish I had died 15 years ago from a quick, deadly heart attack rather than have had to live in this miserable CFIDS sick body. Says something doesn't it?