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==CDC investigation== 'The [[CDC]] showed up eventually, but they refused to examine any of the patients. [[Stephen Straus]] called it a disease of โdepressed menopausal women.โ [[U.S. Department of Health and Human Services|HHS]] made this characterization known to the press, which then dubbed the disease โ[[Yuppie Flu]].โ'<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://sarahallegra.wordpress.com/2014/05/13/the-incline-village-outbreak/ | title = The Incline Village Outbreak | date = 2014-05-13 | website = Mythic Pictures|language=en | access-date = 2021-03-24}}</ref> {{See also|Stigma and discrimination||List of abnormal findings in chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis|||}} The local doctors seemed to be defending their scorned and disabled patients from the CDC and medical establishment.<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://phoenixrising.me/folder/ed/original-sin-incline-village-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-and-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-by-cort-johnson | title = ORIGINAL SIN: Incline Village, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis | last = Johnson | first = Cort | author-link = Cort Johnson | date = | website = Phoenix Rising: Supporting People With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status= | access-date = 2021-03-24}}</ref> In an interview with [[Hillary Johnson]], she spoke about Incline Village and the CDC response. "In 1984-85, a large number of people living in Incline Village, Nevada, were devastated by a mysterious, debilitating disease, now known to be Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. After a cursory investigation of the outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the [[National Institutes of Health]] (NIH) have made little effort to aggressively research the disease. It was not until 1995--ten years later--that scientists at the CDC gave CFS a "Priority 1" listing among their "New and Reemerging Infectious Diseases" category, thus officially recognizing it as a bona fide disease. Despite including CFS in this category, these agencies continue to insist there is no evidence that CFS is infectious."<ref name="OslerInterview">{{Cite web | url = https://www.ncf-net.org/library/hillary.htm | title = Oslers Web Author, Hillary Johnson, Talks about CFS and her Book | website = ncf-net.org | access-date = 2021-03-24}}</ref> Although the CDC did not examine patients when they were sent to investigate the mysterious illness they were called in for, they somehow were able to, at a later date, produce a report based on whether or not the patients were experiencing [[Chronic Epstein-Barr virus]]. The non-conclusion was: "Currently available data neither prove nor disprove the hypothesis that EBV activity is responsible for chronic illness, but it is clear that the diagnosis of CEBV using current clinical and laboratory criteria in an individual patient is unreliable."<ref name="cdc" />
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