You got it!! Most doctors think it is completely impossible for these viruses to re-activate and they may have a little bit of validation in a completely health person, but we are not that case and it is one that needs to be fixed. My EBV and HHV-6 has been active for the most part of 3 years. If I get my disability next week I will have much larger pool of physicians to see (as compared to Medicaid) and I'm hoping that I can find someone to support the re-activation theory.
Here is an article that I had kept for a long time. Notice the quirk in the EBV re-activation!
http://labmed.ascpjournals.org/content/31/3/163.full.pdf
This article plainly states that any type of stress that impedes the immune system will allow the re-activation of EBV
http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/content/63/6/891.full
Another good link, but more broader in scope. In reading these it becomes pretty apparent to me anyway that I feel that our compromised immune systems are allowing re-activation of many of our latent viruses.
A sticker point for me is that many people in stressful situations, such as taking exams and astronauts going into space both get stressed and get re-activated viruses such as EBV or CMV, but apparently their immune system recovers to push the viruses back into latency. However it is very obvious that this is not happening with us. Once the stressor drops the immune system it is not recovering. I want to know why???? This should have been a fore front study years ago.
Dr. Montoya is correct, at least to me, that our problem is with our inate immune system or possibly an abnormallity in the stressor that is not processed as a normal one should. I don't know, but it is a hell of a good place for someone to focus their research on. I wish their was a way to earmark funding that will have to used to study this in a very pinpoint manner.
This could explain why there is a releapse in the people that are taking Rituximab.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3031243/