Shortly after the June 1992 AIDS conference in Amsterdam, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome researcher Dr. Paul Cheney announced that he had 20 CFS patients in his practice who had the same immune system deficiencies as the non-HIV AIDS cases.
Correlations Between CFS and AIDS I. (Ed Friedlander, M.D., Chairman, Department of Pathology, University of Health Sciences, Kansas City MO -- Jan. 24, 1996). For more on the current divisions in chiropractic, see Consumer Reports, June 1994, cover story.
The government scientist responsible for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome research at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Stephen Straus, finally admitted in early 1993 -- after 13 years of trying to prove that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a type of depression -- that immune system deficiencies are part of the illness. Dr. Straus and his colleagues published data showing that CFS patients, like AIDS patients, experience a drop in the number of T4 cells in their blood. (ibid)