from http://cebv.weebly.com/facts-about-ebv.html
Mono is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus, which is named after the scientists who first identified it in the mid-1960s. The virus enters the lymph nodes and attacks the
lymphocytes (the white blood cells manufactured there). As the white blood cells come into contact with the virus, they change shape and multiply. At first, there are no
symptoms because it takes several weeks before enough of the altered cells can accumulate to generate infection.

--Young children are usually protected from infection because their immune systems are primed while they are still in the womb.
--However, this immunity gradually wears off as they get older.
--The vast majority of EBV infections in children either cause no symptoms at all, or very mild symptoms indistinguishable from the other mild, brief illnesses of childhood.
--When EBV infection occurs during adolescence or young adulthood, it causes infectious mononucleosis in up to 50% of cases.

--The symptoms of infectious mononucleosis-
They include fever, sore throat, and swollen lymph glands. Sometimes, the spleen or liver may also begin to swell up. On very rare occasions it may also cause heart disorders and problems with the central nervous system.

--If the virus lasts more than six months, it is frequently called chronic EBV infection. Some doctors think EBV is the cause of a chronic condition called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), although this has not been definitively proven.

--The symptoms of CEBV-
Fatigue, Pain present in any area of the body, Fever, Insomnia and Hyperinsomnia, Vertigo, Nausea, Headache, Sensitivity to light, heat, and cold. Lightheadedness, foggy head, depression, heart palpitations, tremors, swollen lymph glands and more.

--Many with CEBV can suffer from a wide range of symptoms. While others with CEBV only suffer from one or two symptoms.
--EBV remains dormant or latent in a few cells in the throat and blood for the rest of the person's life.
--Periodically, the virus can reactivate and is commonly found in the saliva.
--This reactivation usually occurs without symptoms of illness.
--EBV also establishes a lifelong dormant infection in some cells of the body's immune system.
--It is possible, though very unlikely, that this may lead to the development of two very rare cancers - Burkitt's lymphoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
--Most individuals exposed to people with infectious mononucleosis have previously been infected with EBV and are not at risk.
--Transmission of EBV requires intimate contact with the saliva of an infected person.
--Transmission of this virus through the air or blood does not normally occur.
--After the initial infection, EBV remains in the body, mainly in white blood cells, for life. Infected people shed the virus periodically in their saliva. They are most likely to infect others during shedding, which usually causes no symptoms.
--The virus is also found frequently in the saliva of healthy people.
--Many healthy people can carry and spread the virus intermittently for life.
--Transmission of the virus is almost impossible to prevent.
--There is no specific treatment for infectious mononucleosis, other than treating the symptoms. [this is BS because people get rid of it by doing blood electrification]
--No antiviral drugs or vaccines are available.
--Antibody tests for EBV measure the presence and/or the concentration of specific EBV antibodies. Different laboratory tests can measure specific EBV antibodies. Some of these tests can be performed on a single sample of blood, while others compare different samples of blood over a period of time