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Life-Draining Disease Needs Research
Wednesday 5 October 2016
From US newspaper the Green Bay Press-Gazette:
 Brian Vastag sits in the cockpit of NASA's retired Discovery Shuttle while on assignment with The Washington Post in 2012, before he started suffering from myalgic encephalomyelitis. (Photo: Courtesy of Bonnie Vastag) |
Life-draining disease needs research
Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) — It’s the difficult to spell, hard to pronounce illness that afflicts our son, Brian Vastag, and millions of sufferers in the U.S. and around the world. On Sept. 27, the second Millions Missing protest is scheduled for Washington, D.C., and worldwide. I have mailed a pair of shoes to D.C. representing Brian — missing from the job he loves, missing from socializing with his friends, missing health care professionals who understand his disease. They’ll be displayed with thousands of other pairs as advocates work for adequate research dollars to help solve this scourge.
A graduate of Southwest High School and the University of Minnesota, Brian had a promising career as a journalist, earning a position at The Washington Post on its science desk. In July 2012, he was attacked by a sudden fever and by 2014 was so disabled he could no longer work.
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