There is no one in the UK who is tackling this problem

Mail & Guardian Online, Feb 26 2011:

Whatever the final conclusion about XMRV, everybody hopes that the episode will generate more scientific research. But Simpson talked for the frustrated majority when he described the case of one child on tube-feeding, whose consultant said she must have CBT and should be back in school within a week, and asked: “Why isn’t science playing a part in trying to resolve this?”

He himself has two daughters with ME/CFS. It is not hard to imagine how tough that must be. “At the end of the day it is about people’s health,” he said. “My daughters are ill because of this. I can’t see anyone in this country who is tackling the problem.”