CATEGORY (Skin, General, Viral, Contagious)
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Diseases of the Nervous System
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System
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Nervous System
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Organ
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Brain
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Alternate Names /Common Names
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- Benign Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
- Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome
- Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome
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Names in different languages
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- Stanchezza in Italian
- Thakana in Hindi
- Pilo in Korean
- Fatiga in Spanish
- Ayasa in Kannada
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ICD 10 Classification
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G93.3
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World statistic
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- Different studies have reported between 7 and 3000 cases of CFS for every 100,000 adult population
- Center for Disease Control reports more than 1 million Americans for CFS of which 80% are undiagnosed
- According to NHS in UK around 250,000 people are affected by CFS
- CFS occurs at least four times more frequently in women than in men
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Indian statistics
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Reliable statistics not available
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Most prevalent in
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Worldwide distribution (but grossly underdiagnosed)
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