Hi Hopeful,

There may be more than one. I have a distant cousin with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) who says it is EBV, and Chronic EBV is one of the alternative names for CFS.

OTOH, other sources draw a distinction (that I haven't figured out yet).

chronic epstein barr virus

Numbers vary, but there seems to be a concensus that most of us have the virus, albeit dormant.

I can speak from personal experience that it can reactivate in a number of ways; HOWEVER, I wouldn't jump to any conclusions because of lab numbers. At least some of the sites I read said that Chronic EBV cannot be DX'd by lab tests—ostensibly because most of us test positive for the virus anyway. A few of the sites also mentioned that CEBV is rare in the West and more common in Asia.

An archive search for "chronic epstein-barr" turned up a half dozen or so hits; oddly none of them in the Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue forum.

Doc