It is possible that in October this year, the most important research article in the history of CFS/ME was published. Why? Because the study found that most CFS/ME patients had the DNA of a retrovirus called XMRV in their blood – 67% of the sample. For the first time there could be concrete evidence of an organic imbalance in the illness. Why else? Because it was published in perhaps the world’s most prestigious medical journal –– Science - which is unheard of for CFS/ME . And also because of the credibility of the people involved, the Whittemore Peterson Institute, and announcements from people like Dr. Stuart Le Grice head of the NCI’s AIDS and Viral Cancer Center of Excellence in the U.S. All of this has massive implications for future research funding and recognition for CFS/ME so we are very happy at the clinic. But we also take a big sigh when these articles come out and get simplified into headlines that the “cause of CFS/ME” has been found and in this case retroviral drugs may be the “cure.”The press, patients and even medically qualified people fail to grasp that finding the DNA of a virus in a particular group of ill people does not mean it is the cause of the illness. XMRV may be a symptom of a range of organs and systems that have gone out of balance in patients due to multiple stressors on the body originating from environmental factors, genetic, structural and biochemical imbalances as well as the internal and external influence of psycho-emotional factors.Sorry to be the kill-joy but we predict an integral approach to treatment of chronic illnesses like CFS/ME will be the most successful because human health requires a systems approach to healing– an idea that still eludes the conventional medical world obsessed with one-shot-cures based on a Newtonian model of health which is 400 years out of date.