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As I said in another comment, it sounds extremely plausible to me that CFS is mainly caused by a viral infection doing damage to one of the hormone glands in the HPA-axis. Nothing else out there makes any sense and I'd bet at 40% that the HPA-axis is what's wrong with CFS sufferers.
The question is, what can we do about it right now? The medical establishment has already lost interest in doing anything about CFS. I am not a medical researcher, I don't have loads of money either.
Perhaps interested people here on LW can form a startup-style charity to try and investigate this? I'd be up for chatting over skype or something.
https://report.nih.gov/categorical_spending_project_listing.aspx?FY=2015&ARRA=N&DCat=Chronic%20Fatigue%20Syndrome%20(ME/CFS)
There is no 'medical establishment'. There are people trying to work out where their limited amounts of money should be best spent.
http://www.mrc.ac.uk/funding/science-areas/population-systems-medicine/cfsme/
£1.6million is not much, for the scale of the problem, but I would not put my rational charity dollar into CFS funding, or indeed into any first-world medical problem, and I actually have some chance of being a sufferer.