In a world where most people function on a shortage of sleep, chronic fatigue syndrome is the Rodney Dangerfield of diseases — it gets no respect. And in Canada, it gets little or no money.
It’s so bad that sufferers, estimated to number four million in the U.S. and 400,000 here, have to fund the research themselves to come up with a simple blood test just to diagnose the syndrome.
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