The renowned Stanford geneticist, Ron Davis Ph.D., who’s son Whitney has a very serious case of ME/CFS has opened a research foundation at Stanford to find answers to ME/CFS. He’s also, on the foundations’ Facebook page, supplying answers to one question a week from the ME/CFS community.
Davis suggests an unusual strain of EBV could be present in ME/CFS
He’s done two questions thus far. In the first question, we learned Davis suspects that the HLA genes that govern the immune response could be implicated in ME/CFS and he’s doing research to check that out. (These genes are super hard to measure; Davis is one of the few trying to do that.)
In the second question, Dr. Davis suggested that an unusual variant of the Epstein-Barr virus could be responsible for the high prevalence of mononucleosis-triggered ME/CFS patients. He also suggested that pathogens not normally associated with mono could be implicated as well and proposed how we could study that.
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Thank you for your work. I had H3N2 back in 1989. By 1992 it was called fibromyalgia. Worthless diagnosis. I was left to fend for myself.
Thirty years of suffering.
I’m truly sorry for all that your son is suffering through. It’s wretched.
Thank you,
Deborah Manville