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ME/CFS AUSTRALIA (SA) INC
Registered Charity 698
Mailing address:
GPO Box 383,
Adelaide,
South Australia 5001
Office:
266 Port Road,
Hindmarsh,
South Australia 5007
Ph: (08) 8346 3237
('834 MECFS')
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Wednesdays, 10am-3pm
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10am-3pm)
Ph: (08) 8346 3237
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Ph: 1300 128 339
(local call)
FIBROMYALGIA HELP: Contact Fibromyalgia SA at the Arthritis Foundation of SA 118 Richmond Road, Marleston 5033 Ph: (08) 8379 5711 |
ME/CFS Australia (SA) Inc supports the needs of sufferers of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and related illnesses. We do this by providing services and information to members.
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First official death in the UK from chronic fatigue syndrome
June 18, 2006
New Scientist reports that Sophia Mirza, a 32-year-old Englishwoman, died from what Coroner Veronica Hamilton-Deeley noted as “acute aneuric renal failure (failure to produce urine) due to dehydration as a result of CFS.”
This, according to New Scientist, is the first time anywhere in the world where Chronic Fatigue Syndrome has been given as the cause of death.
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New Scientist: First official death from chronic fatigue syndrome (external link) |
Note from the Committee:
Members and readers should put this report in perspective.
All of the statistical and anecdotal evidence about CFS would suggest that: (a) most people with CFS reach a state of recovery or better health; and (b) there are very very few recorded cases of death caused by ME/CFS (this is the only case of CFS as an official cause of death, but there have been a very small number of cases where it was suggested as a possible cause of death, and we are aware of cases where CFS has contributed to a death).
It is extremely unlikely on all the evidence accumulated so far that ME/CFS will be a terminal illness for those who have it. The importance of this finding is that a legal system has acknowledged the primary physical nature of CFS, and its role in causing fundamental and dramatic changes in the body.
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