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Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a more serious and lasting complication of viral illness. Unresolved infections with the Mono virus can sometimes result in a complex syndrome of recurrent sore throat, muscle aching, swollen lymph nodes, joint pain, and profound fatigue. Psychological disturbance results, with memory loss, difficulty concentrating, anxiety and depression. The Epstein-Barr virus is one of many organisms that can produce this syndrome. Specific serum antibody tests can evaluate this possibility. Some patients remain incapacitated for years. Crossover sensitivity to environmental toxins, fumes, industrial chemicals, and inhalant or food allergies are often seen.

At the Poland Spring Health Institute I have seen many patients with CFS recover their strength and energies. The combination of a simple, low-fat diet, and gradually increasing exercise helps to boost immune defenses. Chronic viral disease yields to the benefits of fever therapy, given over a two to three week period. Depression lifts, while new energy comes into the nearly disabled invalid. There is hope for most infections, especially the chronic viral ones producing fatigue.

Other viral diseases of the skin include the foot and mouth disease of children (Coxsackie virus), warts, milker’s nodule, contracted from infected cows, and molluscum contagiosum, an infectious disease of the skin caused by the largest known viruses.

Cat scratch disease is a viral infection characterized by swelling of the regional lymph nodes, secondary to an animal scratch, usually a cat. The diagnosis is usually made from the history, with confirmation by a skin test or lymph node biopsy. The recovery is usually complete.

Infectious mononucleosis is a viral illness, and usually seen in young adults. A severe sore throat associated with a rash on the palate, enlargement of the lymph nodes and spleen, general weakness, muscle aching, and at times central nervous system symptoms are a result. Confirmatory blood tests (the Mono spot) can pinpoint the disease with accuracy in its early stages. Specific fever therapy associated with rest, a spare diet, and other symptomatic measures can usually provide a rapid recovery.

Mumps is an acute communicable disease, characterized by painful enlargement of the salivary glands, and more specifically of the parotid glands, just in front of the ears. Sometimes the infection involves the testicles; rarely it produces meningitis. At times testicular involvement (orchitis) will result in lifetime sterility. There is no specific treatment, though swollen painful organs can be relieved with cold compresses while the disease runs its course and is treated at home with general measures.

Many tropical diseases, spread by mosquitoes, can be seen around the world. Eastern and western equine encephalitis, dengue, yellow fever, and hemorrhagic fevers are the more common of these. Treatment is generally symptomatic and supportive.

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