{"id":8539,"date":"2025-01-22T12:14:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T18:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8539"},"modified":"2025-01-22T12:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T18:14:40","slug":"chronic-fatigue-syndrome-has-surged-since-the-pandemic-study-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/01\/22\/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-has-surged-since-the-pandemic-study-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Has Surged Since The Pandemic, Study Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-has-surged-since-the-pandemic-study-reveals\">Science Alert<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists are growing concerned that infections of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/coronavirus\">SARS-CoV-2<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/virus\">virus<\/a>&nbsp;may be triggering more cases of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/chronic-fatigue-syndrome\">chronic fatigue syndrome<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/chronic-fatigue-syndrome\">myalgic encephalomyelitis<\/a>&nbsp;(ME\/CFS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new study has found that six months or longer after a SARS-CoV-2 infection, participants were 7.5 times more likely to meet the diagnostic criteria for ME\/CFS than those who had not been infected. &#8220;Our results provide evidence that the rate and risk of developing ME\/CFS following SARS-CoV-2 infection is significantly increased,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11606-024-09290-9\">write<\/a>\u00a0the authors of the study, led by ME\/CFS researcher Suzanne Vernon of the Bateman Horne Center in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-has-surged-since-the-pandemic-study-reveals\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"pDhv s msl kjde NP\"><!-- pDhv s msl kjde NP --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Alert Scientists are growing concerned that infections of the&nbsp;SARS-CoV-2&nbsp;virus&nbsp;may be triggering more cases of&nbsp;chronic fatigue syndrome&nbsp;or&nbsp;myalgic encephalomyelitis&nbsp;(ME\/CFS). A new study has found that six months or longer after a SARS-CoV-2 infection, participants were 7.5 times more likely to meet the diagnostic criteria for ME\/CFS than those who had not been infected. &#8220;Our results provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-considerations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8540,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539\/revisions\/8540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}