Re CFS cause, was inexp doxy

[Guest guest]

Someone wrote:

>> You postulate that you and Laurie contracted rom a " viral

infection " without indicating what virus(es) you're talking about or

whether you've tested positive for viruses, so I see no reason to assume

that you, or anyone else with CFIDS, acquired it from a viral infection.>>>

We have no idea how the mycoplasma or c pneumonia or rickettsia started

causing CFS symptoms. It could have easily been a virus, maybe 's

stealth virus, that weakened the immune system enough for the bacterial

infections to take hold. What other reason could there be for spouses not

getting the bacterial infections? There immune systems didn't suffer the

insult

that ours did. So to POSTULATE that a viral infection was the initiating

event

in CFS is good THEORY although it can't be proven. HHV6 is a good

possibility as the INITIAL cause. So to say that a virus has nothing to do

with CFS is just as potentially wrong as saying it is purely bacterial.

Plus, you say that Nicholson found Mycoplasma infections in only 40% of

PWCs. What about the other 60%? Maybe the other 60% is still under attack

from a viral infection and the mycoplasma/rickettsia hasn't set in yet.(?)

Mike