Re: News of Dr Kerr's gene expression work and treatm...

March 2, 2006

Hi, mjh.

I think " comprehensive " is stretching it a little, but it's nice of

you to say that!

Concerning EBV, though, I think it is one of several viruses that

can reactivate from the latent, endogenous state when glutathione

goes low enough. I wouldn't view it as the cause in most cases of

CFS.

However, if we're talking about a person who gets an EBV infection

for their first time, such as a teenager getting mononucleosis

(glandular fever) on their first exposure to EBV, and then they go

into CFS from that, I think it could be viewed as a precipitating

factor in that case. I would say that the cause in such a case

would be a genetic predisposition, combined with whatever lowered

the glutathione to the point where the vicious cycle set in,

including the EBV infection, because the immune system demands more

glutathione to fight it. I do think that the genetic predisposition

has to be there for a person to develop CFS, though. Until the

person's genetic variations are characterized, they continue to hide

in the bushes, and the EBV gets the blame for causing the CFS.

Rich

>

> But, EBV is not on Rich's comprehensive list of CFIDS subsets...

at least,

> not that I could find.

>

> mjh

>

> In a message dated 3/2/06 3:35:11 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

> runningwild@... writes:

>

> All I know is that whoever the researchers are they believe that

CFS is

> originally caused by the Ebstein Barr virus.Which seems odd to me

because as

> we all know

> this is very old news!

>

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