alex3619
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An easy way to think of it, without the complexity of chaos or systems theory, is that there is a sharp divide between well and ME, and you can think of it as a cliff. Healthy people are on the top, usually well away from the cliff. Less healthy, or with the right susceptibilities, can be closer to the cliff. A pathogen can push you toward the cliff. So can other events. Eventually something might push you over the edge, and you fall into ME. So the issue is what kind of things push you over, or the underlying mechanism.Without the potential, those infections can't foment the process that ends in ME.
Most pathogens that can trigger ME seem to have an affinity for both the gut and B cells.
This is only a way to think of it, the reality is more complex.