| SE - Pernilla Zethraeus om sin svåra sjukdom |
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| Svensk / Swedish |
| Written by Pernilla Zethraeus, Carl-Gerhard Gottfries - sent in by Helle Rasmussen |
| Monday, 08 February 2010 12:18 |
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"Pernilla Zethraeus om sin svåra sjukdom" Video interview with Swedish ex-politician Pernilla Zethraeus about her serious disease (16:34)
Ms. Pernilla Zethraeus was a member of the Swedish Parliament, when she had to retire because of ME/CFS in 2005. She now has an activity span of 3 hours per day. She describes the symptoms of the disease, how there is no help to get in the public healt care system and how she had to see a private clinic in Brussels to get proper treatment. She can now give this disease a face and go against the misconception that it is weak, attention seeking women who get this serious disease.
Video interview with Swedish professor Carl-Gerhard Gottfries about his research in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (6:33)
Carl-Gerhard Gottfries is a retired professor of psychiatry. He also has ME/CFS and runs a private clinic for this disease in Göteborg. He is completely against the theory of ME/CFS being a psychosomatic disorder. A stafylococcus vaccine has helped him and other ME/CFS patients, but the firm in Zwitzerland stopped the production of the vaccine.
Chat with professor Carl-Gerhard Gottfries: "Is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome hereditary ?"
A question-and-answer chat with prof. Carl-Gerhard Gottfries, where he amongst other things says, that ME/CFS is not hereditary but that you can inherit the disposition for the disease, for example through a weak immune system.
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There are four Swedish articles about ME/CFS from 2009, including interviews with Pernilla Zethraeus and Carl-Gerhard Gottfries, at
Please also visit Professor Carl-Gerhard Gottfries' website: Gottfries Clinic |