A large, ubiquitous, and normally benign, herpes-like virus with both DNA and capsid. It is sometimes implicated in mononucleosis and at least two types of lymphomas. Recently it has been become connected with the symptom picture called chronic fatigue syndrome (as has been CMV) and can produce many ill-defined (but subjectively distressful) symptoms, including fatigue, fevers of an unknown origin (FUO...love those acronyms!), and emotional lability. Immunosuppression, from whatever cause, allows the syndrome to occur. Many people in and out of medicine have come to regard it as both another form of Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS, naturally) and a sequel to excessive medical use of immunosupressant antiinflammatories.... epstein-barr virus
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