Forgotten Plague (2015)

Forgotten Plague: Directed by Nicole Castillo, Ryan Prior. A journalist afflicted with the underresearched debilitating condition known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome embarks on a quest to find out why the CDC and medical system have neglected his disease and left millions sidelined from life.

“As an Incline Village survivor and prototype for CFS, I felt that the film was a good representation of the disease, but very shallow on its stated mission of finding out why this disease is so neglected.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eForgotten Plague didnu0026#39;t cover any new ground, or ask any tough questions. Rather, simply accepting Dr. Komaroffu0026#39;s bland apology for a poor choice of naming the syndrome at face value… then blaming the name for all the trouble.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDr. Komaroffu0026#39;s own testimony of his 1987 Low Natural Killer cell function paper proves that no one ever thought fatigue was a primary issue.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt is fairly common knowledge that, as Hillary Johnson explains in the film, that the CDC and Stephen Straus of the NIH set out to deliberately trivialize the disease out of existence… and as Hillary Johnson said, the Komaroff paper and Dr Klimas finding the same thing again in her 1992 paper, u0026quot;which made her famousu0026quot; was more than enough to impel medicine to move beyond any misrepresentation of CFS as little more than fatigue, or that this is a disease about which nothing is known.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBoth Osleru0026#39;s Web by Hillary Johnson and the 1990 documentary by Kim Snyder u0026quot;I Remember Meu0026quot; are much more historically accurate.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIf Forgotten Plague inspires people to take interest in the hidden history of CFS, it will be a good effort.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut if people accept the simple u0026quot;bad nameu0026quot; explanation at face value without question, this documentary will actually be helping to cover up the way this disease was plagued by the CDC/NIH to be forgotten.”