{"id":30955,"date":"2021-05-12T08:11:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T07:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=30955"},"modified":"2021-05-13T22:45:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T21:45:22","slug":"me-awareness-day-12th-may-2021-post-viral-illness-is-not-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/me-awareness-day-12th-may-2021-post-viral-illness-is-not-new\/","title":{"rendered":"ME Awareness day 12th May 2021 &#8211; Post-viral illness is not new!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">May 12<sup>th<\/sup> is International ME Awareness day<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-31010 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/blue-ribbon-ME-day-prevalence-800x600-1.jpg?resize=800%2C533&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"International ME Awareness Day May 12th. ME prevalence: Wales 13,00; UK 240.000; World 17 million.0\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/blue-ribbon-ME-day-prevalence-800x600-1.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/blue-ribbon-ME-day-prevalence-800x600-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/blue-ribbon-ME-day-prevalence-800x600-1.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/blue-ribbon-ME-day-prevalence-800x600-1.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 800px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 800\/533;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During 2020 and 2021 the world has been shocked, particularly in the West, by the indiscriminate damage that a virus can have.\u00a0 Chronic post-viral illness has been catapulted into the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>But post-viral illness is not new.\u00a0 Multiple viruses have triggered the majority of cases of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME\/CFS).\u00a0 13,000 people in Wales are thought to be affected by the illness, 17 million globally. Following COVID-19 that number is likely to grow.<\/p>\n<p>During 2021 WAMES is sharing through our website, social media and galleries:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Key facts about ME\/CFS<\/li>\n<li>Quotes from people experiencing and working with ME\/CFS in Wales<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A lot is not known about ME\/CFS or long COVID but what <em>is<\/em> known, needs to be acted on.<\/p>\n<p>Wales has been been a healthcare desert for people with ME. It is time to take action to change that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 12th is International ME Awareness day &nbsp; During 2020 and 2021 the world has been shocked, particularly in the West, by the indiscriminate damage that a virus can have.\u00a0 Chronic post-viral illness has been catapulted into the spotlight. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/me-awareness-day-12th-may-2021-post-viral-illness-is-not-new\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4398],"class_list":["post-30955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-me-awareness-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-83h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30955"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31045,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30955\/revisions\/31045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}