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A comment on A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Parent comment

Re:A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by UnFleshedOne on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @12:37PM (#20878858)
I don't think that's much more useful than saying a flu is caused by stress, is it?
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Re:A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by tomhoward on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @10:30PM (#20883371)
It's not useful to try and explain an illness by a singular cause, when multiple factors are extant and important.

Susceptibility to flu is influenced by immune system fortitude; that's uncontroversial. That stress is one factor (among several) that can weaken the immune system in an otherwise healthy person, is surely useful to consider when making life choices.

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