Long term, then, the plan should be for eradicating EBV like polio. The trick is convincing the PTB how much profit they have been losing because people are always fighting this infection and we have become acclimated to slow thinking and tired employees. When combined with several other chronic diseases (obesity, Lyme, Herpes Zoster, alcoholism, poverty), EBV slips through with a free pass because it is perceived as a teenage rite of passage.