Yes, quite a good article. However, after watching the video of Dr. David Bell's recent talk in California, I fear for Hannah's future. Dr. Bell said a number of things that coincided with my experience -- one of them being that ME runs very strongly in families. Most interesting, though, was Dr. Bell's explanation of the longer-term outcomes of his many young patients who became ill between the ages of 10 and 13, I seem to recall. They were initially presumed to have mono, but their blood tests were negative for Epstein Barr. This was my situation at age 12.
Dr. Bell continued to track his patients, and although those that became ill as pre/young-teens recovered, they all "crashed" in their mid-30's. Again, my experience. The virus that reactivated my illness occurred at age 32. Although I struggled to keep going for a few years, at age 34 my condition deteriorated rapidly.
It was heartening to hear a prominent doctor who so clearly "gets it". However, the realization that my situation isn't unique provides a particularly compelling reason why this disease needs to be solved before the current generation of young patients suffer a similar decline when in their prime.