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Do you remember the beginning of the outbreak of what would later come to be...

Unrest • 2017
>> Jennifer: Do you remember the beginning of the outbreak of what would later come to be called
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?

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>> Jennifer: Do you remember the beginning of the outbreak
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of what would later come to be called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
Duration
9 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
00:28:22
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary, drama, history
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When Harvard Ph.D. student Jennifer Brea is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine forgot.
I can recall to this day those moments. - Unrest 00:05
I can recall to this day those moments.
One was an epidemic of apparent mono in a girl’s basketball team. - Unrest 00:07
One was an epidemic of apparent mono in a girl’s basketball ...
And by July, August we had over two hundred cases of adult viral-like syndrome. - Unrest 00:09
And by July, August we had over two hundred cases of adult v...
It wasn't that fact they were showing up sick, it was the fact that they remained sick as the years went by. - Unrest 00:08
It wasn't that fact they were showing up sick, it was t...
They not only remained sick, their sickness actually evolved into something different than it was at the beginning. - Unrest 00:09
They not only remained sick, their sickness actually...
Now they were complaining of severe and debilitating fatigue. - Unrest 00:06
Now they were complaining of severe and debilitating...
They began to complain of strange cognitive complaints. - Unrest 00:06
They began to complain of strange cognitive complaints.
We were certain we were looking at something that we have never ever heard of before - Unrest 00:09
We were certain we were looking at something that we have ne...
>> Jennifer: When the CDC came out to investigate, they looked at patient’s charts, - Unrest 00:11
>> Jennifer: When the CDC came out to investigate, the...
Doctor William Reeves, that man in charge of investigating Chronic Fatigue for the CDC, - Unrest 00:16
Doctor William Reeves, that man in charge of investigating C...
And three, there are no clusters. So when asked about the illness at Lake Tahoe, he said that was hysteria. - Unrest 00:09
And three, there are no clusters. So when asked about the il...
Thirty years later we don't seem any closer. - Unrest 00:06
Thirty years later we don't seem any closer.
We know that ME can be triggered by viruses and bacterial infections. - Unrest 00:06
We know that ME can be triggered by viruses and bacterial in...
But we don't know if the infection hides in places where it's hard to measure, like the brain. - Unrest 00:09
But we don't know if the infection hides in places wher...
Or if it's long gone but leaves in its wake an autoimmune disease. - Unrest 00:06
Or if it's long gone but leaves in its wake an autoimmu...
There are now a handful of specialists, but most patients will never get to see one. - Unrest 00:07
There are now a handful of specialists, but most patients wi...
My doctor prescribed me an antiviral drug called Valcyte. - Unrest 00:06
My doctor prescribed me an antiviral drug called Valcyte.
Two days later I was walking again. - Unrest 00:05
Two days later I was walking again.
Oh god. - Unrest 00:06
Oh god.
I could feel everything in my head swelling pushing out my eyeballs. - Unrest 00:08
I could feel everything in my head swelling pushing out my e...