The CFIDS Association Board of Directors

Statement from the CFIDS Association's Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors is having its regularly scheduled fall meeting this weekend and has made time on the two-day agenda to discuss the WPI’s XMRV study and its potential implications for patients and their families. We are buoyed by the tremendous attention this study has brought to CFS.

Over the past 25 years there have been several reports linking CFS to infectious agents; we are in dialogue with scientists and experts and other authorities to provide the community and the public with appropriate science-based information. We will also map immediate next steps to expedite independent validation of these findings by other laboratories using well-characterized patients and controls.

The CFIDS Association's Board of Directors
October 10, 2009

Our Mission:
For CFS to be widely understood, diagnosable, curable and preventable.

Our Strategy:
To stimulate research aimed at the
early detection, objective diagnosis and effective treatment of CFS through
expanded public, private and commercial investment.

Our Core Values:
To lead with integrity, innovation and purpose.      

Additional information on XMRV