It's very important to be able to differentiate between diseases that are often confused for ME/CFS. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to diagnose it definitively and stop having doctors tell you you are depressed, or have PTSD or MS, when you don't? And stop having doctors tell you that your whole deal is from depression, when that is only a small part of it and actually secondary to your disease (it is pretty depressing to have ME/CFS). The effort here is to have a specific diagnosis. No more ambiguity, confusion and ignorance!
On the one hand i'd welcome that with open arms. On the other hand it get's me thinking about those people that still won't have a diagnosis after this. Or perhaps a diagnosis which these great scientists will no further pursue. I know people like your husband, Naviaux, Lipkin, Hornig, Hanson etc. can't do everything and certainly not all at once. But it would be really great if those people could be helped too in the future. Could that be a possible side-effect of this study by the way? That other groups that might not have the dauer-like disease but do have some overlapping symptoms get more knowledge/closer to a cure?