A father’s concern for his son led to research that now sheds new light on a disease that has long been shrouded in mystery.
Andrew Chia, now 24, was diagnosed with debilitating chronic fatigue syndrome in 1997.
This week he is co-author with his father, Dr. John Chia, of a study which links chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) with enteroviruses, which cause acute respiratory and gastrointestinal infections.
“This is sort of a new beginning. Now we can have development of antiviral drugs,” said the elder Chia, an infectious disease specialist in private practice in Torrance, Calif. “We don’t have anything for these poor people, although we’ve tried a number of things. Now we can study how these viruses behave and how we can kill them.”
“Dr. Chia’s data was on a substantial number of patients,” said Dr. Nancy Klimas, a professor of medicine at the University of …
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