That summer, Italian researcher Dario Diluca published his findings in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, reporting HHV-6 in the lymph nodes of 22 percent of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients and only 4 percent of healthy people. This research raised the possibility that AIDS, which affects gay men, is the same disease as CFS, which became widespread in heterosexuals and in virtual lockstep with AIDS in the early 1980s.145
