Martin Lerner MD proposed that the reason why patients could have negative blood tests for virus yet still be infected was because the virus(es) that infected them became abortive and therefore unable to reproduce. What could cause this change?
Significance
Inflammatory processes drive the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis (MS).
However, what triggers this inflammation re- mains unknown.
Several herpesviruses (HHVs), such as HHV-6 typically acquired during childhood, are associated with MS.
The temporal separation between...
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006991
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Note that the news article says "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome", while the actual paper says "chronic fatigue".
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