Today's Wall Street Journal features a really intiguing article about an outbreak of chronic fatigue from people who were exposed to a virus in Lyndoville back in 1985. Among those mentioned in the article is Gasport's Ginger Burg. It notes the following about her plight...
Ginger Burg was also 14 when she first fell ill in 1986. One summer afternoon, she recalls being a healthy teenager playing basketball and baseball. The next day, she couldn't get out of bed. Her parents rushed her to the hospital, where doctors told her she had hepatitis, strep throat and pneumonia.
When she finally went home, she seemed to get sick constantly. Every time she stood up for longer than a few minutes, she felt dizzy. A neurologist who tested her couldn't find anything wrong and suggested she was a hypochondriac, she says.
The article is an excellent read and can be found online at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704005404576176823580854478.html
Ginger Burg was also 14 when she first fell ill in 1986. One summer afternoon, she recalls being a healthy teenager playing basketball and baseball. The next day, she couldn't get out of bed. Her parents rushed her to the hospital, where doctors told her she had hepatitis, strep throat and pneumonia.
When she finally went home, she seemed to get sick constantly. Every time she stood up for longer than a few minutes, she felt dizzy. A neurologist who tested her couldn't find anything wrong and suggested she was a hypochondriac, she says.
The article is an excellent read and can be found online at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704005404576176823580854478.html
