People who then said "There were other clusters, Tahoe was no different."
Which effectively neutralized the new evidence.
If they find low nk function in people with ME who werent in the tahoe outbreak, then whats your opinion on that?
Keep in mind that low nk function seems to be 'the' biomarker for cfs/me.
Im not sure if they are going to find a particular infection is the initial cause, my thoughts are the initial infection has somehow broken the immune system, then other infections such as ebv will reactivate, although ebv could also have been the intial infection that broke the immune system in some?? Also as peterson has mentioned, there is probably some type of genetic weakness that makes one sucseptible to cfs/me from these infections.
It has been mentioned before that cfs/me outbreaks arent mentioned anymore but are probably outbreaks like post SARS or post swine flu etc which have taken over from naming outbreaks as cfs or ME
Do u know of autopsys done on any cfs people from the tahoe epidemic?? Im wondering if they would show the same lesions on ganglion nerves etc as were found in say the royal free outbreak.
I dont think too many of these outbreaks have really been studied that much to compare them more closely in an immunological way. Also the timing of these outbreaks versus tahoe would have issues with technology available to them to do a straight forward comparison. eg i dont think ebv was even known about until after the royal free outbreak, i think it wasnt until the 1960s that ebv was discovered.
I was not apart of any outbreaks but i have the low nk function with ebv/cmv reactivation and other immune activation markers. Would i come under a xfs or an ME diagnosis or because i was an isolated case would my illness be something else?? The end product i have with the abnormal tests shows i fit into the cfs/me diagnosis. As has been mentioned before, i think sub setting patients will be important.
Its an interesting topic and i am interested in the old news videos you post on the tahoe outbreak.
cheers!!!