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EBV is epstein-barr not herpes. I am not sure I understand what you are saying? Why is it more likely that the underlying core is causing increased activity than the reverse? I am seriously curious.

Isn't the point of doing studies using controls is to specifically answer the above question. As the number of controls increase, that will be apparent. To date it seems fine.

Is it though? So many people have looked for this and found anything. I am wondering if there is not some other mechanism at work. Look at the recent finding that measles has a long term impact on the immune system. Recent research seems to be providing the idea that the virus might not need...

I wonder how old the lead's on this paper are. I ask because it reads to me as a bit of a story. 1) Junior Lead - Hey other people are looking at EV's in CFS. Let's see what we can find. 2) Junior Lead - Wow we found something. 3) PhD Adviser - "you should get more people" 4) Junior Lead -...

Ug... it is too bad this work wasn't being done by better researchers. The whole point of my tuft cell postings was to speculate as to a new possible mechanism as to how the virus hits a person, leaves and then leaves behind either new or changed tuft cells that then go on to cause CFS (or...

Right, but smallpox has pretty clear, famous and frankly easy to spot symptoms. I don't really think that is a fair comparison. So let's walk through your logic above. "Hundreds of thousands of people have been diagnosed with ME/CFS by competent physicians" this is true. "including some...

Do you have some data that I am not aware of that supports this supposition? Do mean to "You think this," or "I am speculating"

See part 1 for what a tuft cell is and how they can be created/altered by a virus after the virus is left. Here is what they stay behind to do. Abstract Tuft cells are rare, secretory epithelial cells that generated scant immunological interest until contemporaneous reports in 2016 linked tuft...

First off what are tuft cells... Here is a good description. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/201...ts-are-figuring-out-what-body-s-tuft-cells-do H1N1 influenza virus infection induces dramatic and permanent alveolar remodeling mediated by p63+ progenitor cell expansion in both mice and some...