University of Utah researchers hoped their new assay might uncover a new way to treat EBV infections – but they were shocked at what it turned up. How could a 50 year old kidney drug called Spironolactone have anything to do with EBV? Four years later they...
Almost all of us carry the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) Some of us were introduced to it (and ME/CFS) during adolescence or later when we came down with infectious mononucleosis. Others have carried it in our bodies since childhood. EBV is one of the few viruses our...
All it took for Nuno Sepulveda, PhD to get hooked was to read a paper on autoimmunity and ME/CFS. Once this theoretical immunologist did that he was amazed that no one had really checked out the role that the regulatory T-cells – big players in autoimmunity...
Forty years ago, the Epstein-Barr virus was the hot topic in ME/CFS. Nobody was talking about neuroinflammation back then. Now, though, the idea that neuroninflammation may be causing everything from increased pain sensitivity to fatigue to possibly even the movement...
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...
