What does EM stand for?

WHAT happens, now that 67 per cent of a study group of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) sufferers have been found to have the highly contagious retrovirus XMRV in their blood (Mail)?

IT looks as though myalgic encephalomyelitis is the new "bad back" for skivers.

A team at the University of Bristol carried out tests on mice and then on human brain tissue and found that the neuropeptide "galanin" was resistant to the MS-like disease, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE).

We describe an outbreak of vomiting, wasting, and encephalomyelitis syndrome in piglets in Argentina, caused by porcine hemagglutinating encephalomyelitis coronavirus (PHE-CoV) infection.

Other subjects covered include T-cell vaccination for multiple sclerosis, induction of myelin basic protein-specific autoimmune encephalomyelitis, and chemokines and chemokine receptors in microglia.

3) The researchers infected mice with encephalomyelitis virus, a member of a family of aggressive viruses that include those responsible for the common cold, polio, and hepatitis A.

But his mum Ann says local doctors said the eight-year-old had psychiatric problems, not myalgic encephalomyelitis.

Adverse Events The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that these adverse events after smallpox vaccination be reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting Systems and to state health departments: Eczema vaccinatum Erythema multiforme major or Stevens-Johnson syndrome Fetal vaccinia Generalized vaccinia Inadvertent inoculation Ocular vaccinia Post-vaccinal encephalitis or encephalomyelitis Progressive vaccinia Pyogenic infection of vaccination site Vaccinia transmission to contacts Vaccination of people with a contraindication to vaccination Other serious adverse events (i.