I think the link to ME/CFS would be an indirect one for many toxins taken in isolation. The entire toxic load would be more relevant.
Do you know of any studies that have linked an individual's entire toxic load to the triggering of any disease? I have not seen any, but would be interested if you knew of some. There was speculation that Gulf War Illness might arise from certain toxic combinations, but generally I have not seen much evidence along these lines.
Usually specific toxins cause specific diseases, because toxins have specific actions in the body. If two toxins were to work in tandem to create a disease, they would have to do so via specific biochemical pathways.
Would it have something to do with live-virus vaccines,
Certainly I think we can blame ME/CFS on a
lack of vaccines. If we had had coxsackievirus B, echovirus and Epstein-Barr virus vaccines in our youth, most of us here might have never developed ME/CFS.
I actually think it is criminal that a vaccine for coxsackievirus B and echovirus has not been introduced. There are apparently no major technical challenges to developing such a vaccine (unlike the EBV vaccine, which is still in development, and has technical challenges to overcome).
Yet for some reason, few ME/CFS patients seem to call out for more viral vaccines. I know a vaccine will not help people who already have ME/CFS, but it would likely prevent the next generation from developing this disease. We may well be able to eradicate most new cases of ME/CFS with such vaccines.
Perhaps this is just selfishness, and lack of interest in future generations.
The trigger for my 23-year illness was reactivated EBV. But why would my immune system let that happen?
Your reactivation may have happened as a result of catching another pathogen, which you may have done asymptomatically, so that you were unaware you caught it. Dr Chia has shown for example that catching an enterovirus often causes varicella virus reactivation.