One more point. It sounds like we agree that the term "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" is not terribly useful. Personally, I don't think "Myalgic Encephalopathy" (o

One more point. It sounds like we agree that the term "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" is not terribly useful. Personally, I don't think "Myalgic Encephalopathy" (or "Encephalomyelitis") is any improvement; I haven't had any myalgia. The term we should be using, I suggest, for the subset of these cases that we hypothesize to be caused by EBV or HHV-6, is "Chronic Viral Encephalitis". That term has been used for certain rare infections, which I gather are more severe than what usually winds up being described as CFS. Still, the meaning of the term is quite clear: a chronic viral infection of the brain. And that is what we're talking about.