Just THINK of what could have been known 25 years ago, and in all the time since... if so much as ONE CFS researcher had said Ok.. WHY did it pay to get out of that room? Instead of That doesnt matter anymore. We know SO much more now... CFS has moved on since then. sharecareprayer.org/subpages/CFS/frontend.html > >CFS - Front End of Chemical Sensitivity By Janet Dauble I took the time to read Oslers Web, by Hillary Johnson. It is a fascinating 700-page account from a patients point of view of the clinical and political history of the outbreak of the Yuppie Flu in the Incline Village area. One vignette was about seven out of eight teachers who shared a study/lunch room who became ill. Of course it was supposed that they caught a contagious virus due to their close contact. However this account from Oslers Web should lead us in another direction and cause us to question the other clusters as well: Raggedy Ann Syndrome: Page 25 Oslers Web by Hillary Johnson Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Truckee, California > >Because of the crush of students that year, teachers were obliged to prepare their lessons and eat lunch in a cramped room next to the principals office on the first floor. Compounding the teachers discomfort that fall was a newly installed heating system, intended to save money, that recycled the warm air in individual rooms rather than drawing in fresh air and distributing it throughout the building. School administrators instructed employees in resolute terms to keep all windows closed. Reluctantly, the teachers acquiesced to their hermetic existence in the lounge, although many of them found their habitat, polluted by cigarette smoke and fumes [FUMES] from the two bulky copy machines, nearly intolerable at times.... >Eric Jordan was so put off by the fumes and the meanness of the accommodations that he left school during third period each day, driving his pickup truck with a camper attachment to the lake. There, savoring his view of the largest alpine lake in North America, he perked a pot of coffee and worked in the solitude of his camper....In the end, only one teacher among the eight emerged unscathed [from illness]: Eric Jordan, the outdoors man who had chosen to prepare his lessons and grade papers in the stillness of his camper. Ill tell you, Gerald Kennedy said years afterward, his voice quavering, it paid to get out of that room.
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