Given the ubiquity of herpesviruses, the common infectious trigger in ME/CFS and the fact that once you’re infected with them – you’re infected for life – it’s no surprise that researchers have been interested in herpesviruses and ME/CFS...
As we know, grant applications in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) are hard to come by. Freedom of Information Requests indicate that the NIH received the lowest number of ME/CFS grant applications in memory last year – just 15. Since the NIH spends MUCH more...
Why some people with Lyme disease fail to recover after antibiotic treatment is a question that touches not only on them but on other commonly post-infectious illnesses like ME/CFS, FM and POTS. Further work is needed but an answer could be at hand. Not only did a...
The Epstein-Barr virus appears to be turning on many genes that contribute to autoimmune diseases. Could it be doing the same in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)?
A series of recent articles have laid bare the Lyme disease problem in the U.S with startling clarity. Given the disease’s remarkable spread in forty years (it was identified in Connecticut in the 1970’s), many people with mysterious fatigue and pain...
We also hypothesize that migraine may be attributable to a reactivation of a latent HSV residing within the trigeminal ganglion. The authors She was a healthy 21-year-old white college student who woke up one morning to a “scintillating scotoma”, a visual...
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