

The thing that is different is that this is Lipkin and I imagine this is some of the best technology in the world. The herpesvirus findings have been mixed; if you add them all together they strongly suggest that when you use certain tests rates that rates of herpesvirus activation are strongly increased in CFS...but there's alot of disagreement about what are the right tests and what do the tests mean. According to the CDC guidelines, which are guidelines used by most of the medical community, (don't mean to pick on them) people with CFS don't have herpesvirus problems.
Montoya, Lerner, Peterson, etc. would argue differently. The point is that you really need a researcher like Lipkin to break things open - they won't listen to Lerner...they would listen to Montoya if he could publish a study showing that...but Lipkin would be ideal, I would think, because he's so connected.....If Lipkin says herpesviruses or whatever are found in 30% of people with ME/CFS my guess is that the NIH will start to fund studies to look at that.
So, in my opinion its a matter of it being the guy and the technology he uses (which has never been applied to ME/CFS before).