The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up by Author’s Name

I gave five stars for Ortleb’s courage to tell the truth despite the consequences. It’s clear most people can’t handle the truth, especially if it interferes with profit or image. The questions and allegations raised in this book have yet to be answered. Millions of people are still suffering. The CDC and NIH are still playing politics with people’s lives. I recommend this book to anyone with a chronic illness, or anyone who has loved one with a chronic illness. Take your life into your own hands. Get and stay informed. Our government and its bureaucrats is not looking out for us.

I found this book very hard reading and had to keep going back over some of it for it to sink in,But the author was spot-on One review was very negative I just asked the question has that person ever experience fatigue, If anyone who suffers from with fatigue this book is very educational Also for those that don’t suffer that don’t understand fatigue they should read it although Quite expensive for a paperback But what’s inside makes it a goodbye would 100% recommend it to all suffers especially and those that just don’t understand.

Conspiracies and those who promote medical misinformation are more dangerous that one might realize.

I worked for Charles Ortleb, a conspiracy theorist who believed the HIV/AIDS was a hoax instead he believed that it was HHV6 African Swine Flu Virus. It has long since been disproved that HHV6 African Swine Fever Virus) is the cause of AIDS. It has been proven that HIV is the cause of AIDS.

I worked for That New Magazine, Inc. Chuck Ortleb was the Publisher-in-Chief. I watched as he funneled money from both Christopher Street Magazine as well as TheaterWeek into the struggling New York Native.  At one time, That New Magazine, Inc. published The New York Native, CityWeek, TheaterWeek, Opera Monthly and Night & Day Entertainment Guide. 

I served as their Administrative Assistant and I tried in the worst way to get Neenyah Ostrom (One-time Managing Editor and journalist) and Chuck Ortleb to stop publishing about AIDS and HHV6 and focus on local events in the LGBTQIA community, all no absolutely no avail.

In all fairness and to give credit where it is due, I will say that the article by Larry Kramer which appeared in the March 27, 1983 edition of the New York Native entitled 1,112 and Counting was groundbreaking. The Native was the first newspaper to even publish a story on the AIDS epidemic.

The Native could no longer get advertisers to advertise with them because of the obsessive articles about HIV not being the cause of AIDS.  Every issue had more and more misleading information.  I watched as an increasing number of community centers bars rejected the New York Native.  Advertisers refused to advertise in the Native, so he took the successful TheaterWeek and Christopher Street Magazine and sadly dragged them down along with the Native. It all blew up when in January 1997 TNM, Inc and all its publications went bankrupt.  It was sad and pathetic really.  I watched as he went deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories. He believed that this was all a government conspiracy designed to kill off all the gay men.

It is really sad that many good people lost their jobs because he refused to budge.  He surrounded himself with yes-people who would or could not stand up to him.  Reminds me of someone in the Oval Office.

I’ve lost two close friends because they, believing this harmful nonsense, took themselves off the medications that were saving and prolonging their lives. They read and believed Chuck’s books, were subscribers to the Native. They believed in these long disproven theories.

I cannot stress enough how irresponsible writing like this can be, especially in these horrid times. As children die due to diseases that were one irradiated because they refuse vaccines. As they endanger the public health by creating measles, mumps and rubella outbreaks across the country. As HIV patients reject treatment and medicines because they believe that HHV6 is the actual cause of AIDS, and this nonsense only serves to give voice to those who refuse to wear a mask.  A simple thing that can prevent many deaths is currently being fought by US citizens because they wrongfully believe Mikovits that the masks cause the illness. 

I am sorry, I work in healthcare.  I wear a mask all day long for 12 hour shifts.  I see the results of quackery like this being touted. My goal is to help protect lives not harm them.

This information is dangerous to the unsuspecting public who is already looking for something to give assurances of life. This is medically and socially irresponsible.

Charles Ortleb should go back to being a playwright, which he is qualified to be, and stay away from medical advice. He has, since the 1980s and 1990s tried, and failed repeatedly, to discredit Dr. Anthony Fauci who is a prominent American physician and immunologist who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984.

Conscientiously researched and elegantly written, this account by Charles Ortleb of the evolution of the AIDS epidemic from 1981 through 1997 is full of compassion and hope as well as eye-openers on the evil shenanigans of drug companies like Burroughs-Wellcome and the banally criminal managers/scientists leading the CDC. Although the book weighs in at 466 pages, I couldn’t stop reading, and felt deeply disappointed when I finished the book, which ends at 1997, the year that the New York Native newspaper closed its doors. On the book’s final page Ortleb writes, “The surprising developments that occurred during the two decades following the demise of the New York Native (including the nation-destroying epidemic of HHV-6-related autism), are stories for another day.” Ortleb really should write the rest of the story. I stopped reading for some minutes to track down the availability of the drugs Ampligen and Nexavir (formerly called Kutapressin), both shown to be highly effective at suppressing the HHV-6A/B viruses which seem to do the most damage in both AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Yet the one drug (Ampligen) is still not approved for use in the US after over 20 years, though available in Canada, while the other is manufactured only by a single company in Texas and seemingly ignored. The odd fate of these potentially highly-beneficial drugs is a direct result of the “tissue of lies” woven by the CDC and the National Institutes of Health regarding HIV, the HIV test, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The lies, in an heroic effort by Ortleb and his staff writers Neenyah Ostrum (on CFS) and John Lauritsen (on AZT), are lucidly and with great care documented in this book. I bought the Kindle edition if the book; it was probably the best $10 I have ever spent.