Chronic fatigue syndrome may have a post-viral infection origin

Re:Chronic fatigue syndrome may have a post-viral infection ... by TheSpiceIsLife on Monday September 11, 2023 @11:57AM (#37469181)

There was once a term in more popular use, at least by doctors, that seems to have fallen out of fashion:

Post viral sequela

sequela

noun MEDICINE plural noun: sequelae

a condition which is the consequence of a previous disease or injury. "the long-term sequelae of infection"

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Re:Chronic fatigue syndrome may have a post-viral infection ... by ryanklee on Monday September 11, 2023 @12:12PM (#37469403)

I listen to a podcast called This Week in Virology that's run by some prominent virologists and I hear this term used often, so I don't think that it's fallen out of fashion. Laypersons probably never much used the term to begin with.

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Re:Chronic fatigue syndrome may have a post-viral infection ... by thenerdhead on Monday September 11, 2023 @12:07PM (#37469340)

That is the medical term for it. PASC is another name for long covid.

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