yuppie flu

Thats what yuppie flu does to you then is it?

Go ahead and tell yuppie flu jokes, they do not hurt me.

To call this yuppie flu - as people have done - is a complete misnomer."

It has often been called yuppie flu.

It is also known as "yuppie flu" because it tends to strike well-educated people in their 30's.

The panel also said there was no evidence to suggest that the syndrome, often called yuppie flu, was contagious.

Yuppie flu was a sometimes derisive, and inaccurate, term applied to chronic fatigue syndrome.

Many called it yuppie hypochondria or yuppie flu because it primarily affects young adults.

Among such names are postviral fatigue syndrome, Icelandic disease, neurasthenia, chronic mononucleosis and even "yuppie flu."

Controversy has raged around ME/CFS - once tagged yuppie flu - for decades.

A TEACHER made legal history yesterday by becoming the first person to win damages for so-called yuppie flu.

The most visible victims are often professionals in fast-paced jobs, leading quipsters to dub it "the Yuppie plague" or "Yuppie flu."

In the first years after the introduction of the diagnosis chronic fatigue syndrome the condition was often mocked in the media, for example being described as "yuppie flu".

In the United States, chronic fatigue syndrome has also been called Epstein-Barr virus syndrome, chronic mononucleosis and yuppie flu.

The activists insist that the perception of "yuppie flu" has arisen simply because middle-class people are more likely to present such symptoms to doctors and gain access to specialist clinics.

Also Known as 'Yuppie Flu' Chronic fatigue syndrome has become become a major public health concern since it was first described in 1985 as chronic mononucleosis and chronic Epstein-Barr virus syndrome.

The government yesterday began the first concerted attempt to provide NHS treatment and support for an estimated 240,000 patients suffering from ME and chronic fatigue syndrome, the debilitating condition that used to be dismissed as "yuppie flu".

Dusty began telling us about her first breast implants at age I 9, its subsequent failure, her litigation and her support groups-tales of black goo seeping from nipples, ". . . immunosuppressive globules of silicone gel migrating through my blood system, triggering this never-ending yuppie flu.

"Osler's Web" - the title refers to the famous 19th-century physician and master of medical diagnosis Sir William Osler - details the birth of chronic fatigue syndrome, as it has usually been called by those who believe it is a disease, or "yuppie flu," by those who do not.