If there was ever a “prodigal virus” in ME/CFS, it would be the Epstein-barr virus (EBV). Since the first EBV ME/CFS study in 1984, dozens of studies have examined the role the virus may play in this diseases, and tens of thousands have studied its...
The post-infectious fatigue studies – those which follow healthy people as they come down with an infection and then develop ME/CFS – present the possibility of catching the disease in its tracks as it begins to wreak it’s havoc. Expensive and...
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...
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)?
It’s not every day that a noted researcher calls a study “the capstone” of his career or asserts that it’s more important than the rest of his 500 studies put together. That’s pretty amazing but the exciting part for those of us with...
Bruun Wyller continues to surprise. Recently the CBT proponent called for more research into Epstein Barr virus. Now his latest study suggests that neither the neurological, immune nor the endocrine systems alone cause ME/CFS but that the three working together may...
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