Multiple sclerosis is a disease that pretty much everybody has at least heard of. The same goes for AIDS. If you were to ask someone what chronic fatigue syndrome is, however, odds are that you will draw a blank stare. What’s astounding about this fact is that more people are affected by chronic fatigue syndrome than AIDS or multiple sclerosis. In this article, we’ll attempt to demystify chronic fatigue syndrome by giving you some hard numbers that will help to clearly illustrate exactly how prevalent the problem is in our modern-day society.