Second Paper Pulled on Viral Link to CFS

摘要

A Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) paper from 2010 supporting a link between mouse retroviruses called MLV's and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) was struck from the scientific record on 27 December-5 days after Science fully retracted a controversial 2009 paper suggesting that another mouse-related retrovirus, known as XMRY is linked to CFS. The retraction took away the only paper left indicating a role for mouse retroviruses in CFS. The Science study, by Judy Mikovits of the Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease in Reno, Nevada, and colleagues, came under fire because other studies couldn't replicate the data. The PNAS paper, whose lead researcher was Shyh-Ching Lo of the Food and Drug Administration, initially seemed to lend support to the findings, although scientists pointed out that it fingered a different group of viruses.