Investment in research urgently needed to give hope to sufferers of ME/CFS
Greens spokesperson for Health Hon Alison Xamon MLC has renewed her call to the Government to invest urgently in research into causes and possible treatments for ME/CFS.
Ms Xamon said myalgic enecpohalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) was a complex illness that affects most body systems, but particularly the nervous, immune, cardiac, gastrointestinal and endocrine systems.
She said it affected between 0.4 and one per cent of the Australian population.
“In Western Australia, that works out to be between 10,000 and 26,000 people,” Ms Xamon said.