The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover Up

This volume contains the first two books about the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic by the first publisher to devote a newspaper to the coverage of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and its relationship to the AIDS epidemic. The first book is the detailed history of Charles Ortleb's newspaper, New York Native, the only publication to tirelessly raise questions about everything the Centers for Disease Control was doing and not doing about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The second book contains a critical analysis of the forces and personalities that contributed to a cover-up of an epidemic that now threatens everyone's health.

The definitive history of the intertwined Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and AIDS epidemics by the first publisher to devote a newspaper to their coverage.

The second volume of The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up puts Charles Ortleb in the same league as historians like William L. Shirer and political thinkers like Hannah Arendt. Inspired by Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism," Ortleb weaves together a tapestry of the forces and personalities that played a major role in hiding the truth about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and AIDS from the public. He challenges most of the conventional wisdom about the science and politics of the two epidemics. Anyone who wants to know why the Centers for Disease Control cannot tell the truth about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome needs to know what the Centers for Disease Control is hiding about AIDS and why. Ortleb's second volume is uncompromising as it inexorably lays out the details of a narrative that will disturb anyone who is concerned about public health and the integrity of science and medicine.

The book contains the first six chapters of The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up: How a Little Newspaper Solved the Biggest Scientific and Political Mystery of Our Time.If you want to know the truth about the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic, you need to discover the brilliant investigative work Neenyah Ostrom did for a decade. Starting in 1988, Ostrom reported on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for a newspaper called New York Native. What her reporting uncovered about the true nature of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic will shock you.In The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up, Charles Ortleb recounts his newspaper's struggle to get the media and the mainstream medical establishment to pay attention to Ostrom's pioneering investigative reporting on the science and politics of the devastating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemic.By the time you finish Ortleb's stunning memoir, you will understand why the Centers for Disease Control has been unwilling to tell the public the truth about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The CDC does not want the public to know that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a transmissible illness linked to a virus called HHV-6 that affects every system in the body. They have covered up the illness for so many decades that the neglected virus is totally out of control. Now it is causing a long list of other illnesses and many cancers.Nobody in the world covered the emergence of HHV-6 and its link to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome more than Neenyah Ostrom. Ostrom's decade of reporting on HHV-6 was recently vindicated by this statement from scientists at the University of Wurzburg: "While HHV-6 was long believed to have no negative impact on human health, scientists today increasingly suspect the virus of causing various diseases such as multiple sclerosis or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Recent studies even suggest that HHV-6 might play a role in the pathogenesis of several diseases of the central nervous system such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression or Alzheimer's."The big question about Neenyah Ostrom and New York Native is this: How many lives would have been saved if the scientific establishment and the mainstream media had paid more attention to Neenyah Ostrom's reporting on HHV-6 and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in New York Native?One day, if there is any justice in the world, the CDC and the medical establishment will apologize for not paying attention to Neenyah Ostrom's groundbreaking work on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome that Charles Ortleb published in New York Native. That would be a fitting end to one of journalism's greatest David and Goliath stories.

Two chapters from The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up Volume Two. Charles Ortleb, the pioneering publisher who devoted a newspaper to coverage of AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, analyzes the battle to control the scientific narrative that made Anthony Fauci one of the most powerful scientists in the universe and destroyed the career of Peter Duesberg. While Charles Ortleb concludes that they were both wrong about the nature of the AIDS epidemic, he argues that Duesberg inadvertently helped open the world's eyes to the relationship between HHV-6, AIDS, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

One day soon, the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome crisis will be coming to Broadway. This explosive play by the author of The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up captures the complicated relationship he had with the celebrated intellectual, Susan Sontag.Charles Ortleb met Susan Sontag in 1973 at a gay conference in New York City. He was twenty-three and she was forty. Ortleb had recently moved to New York City and like many aspiring young writers at the time, was fascinated by Sontag. He couldn't believe his luck when she agreed to do an interview with him for a new magazine called Out.This is the first time that interview will reach a major audience, and there is one dramatic moment in which it almost seemed like Sontag was trying to come out of the closet. After asking a number of probing questions about her work, Sontag said to Ortleb, "You don't miss a thing, do you?"The play turns dark and disturbing as Ortleb describes his subsequent two meetings with Sontag in the late 70s and the late 80s. Ortleb, who ultimately published a newspaper and became the first publisher to take AIDS and Chronic Fatigue seriously, met with Sontag when she was working on her book about AIDS and warned her that his newspaper's reporting suggested the government was not being truthful about the nature of AIDS. The last time Ortleb saw Sontag, she hugged him and said, "You're very real to me."Ultimately, Sontag not only did not listen to his advice, but she went out of her way to indirectly attack Ortleb and his newspaper in her book AIDS and Its Metaphors. Ortleb is finally speaking out about this shocking development that occurred decades ago.Ortleb's discussion of Sontag's betrayal of their friendship and ultimately of the gay community, raises new issues about Sontag's character which many are now questioning. The play will dramatically change the way the public looks at AIDS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Susan Sontag.

Tenth year anniversary edition with an update by the author "A relentless, meticulous, and highly persuasive expos by a journalist who spent nine years investigating the medical research establishment's failure to take seriously chronic fatigue syndrome... In a chronology that runs from 1984 to 1994, Johnson crams in fact after telling fact, building up a dismaying picture of a rigid and haughty biomedical research establishment unwilling or unable to respond to the challenge of a multifaceted disease for which a causative agent has yet to be found... A compelling, well-documented account..."Kirkus Reviews