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Re:Viral illnesses may increase chances of developing neurod... by viraptor on Friday January 20, 2023 @11:53PM (#34464013)
There's enough unfounded scares around vaccination as it is. Please do better than write about "activating processes which in some way clean the brain". This is medical version of technobabble.
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Re:Viral illnesses may increase chances of developing neurod... by mxkopy on Saturday January 21, 2023 @12:34AM (#34464177)
It sounds like babbling to say 'we teach our immune system to fight diseases by showing them weaker versions'. The immune system is complicated and unless you're talking about things directly in terms of chemistry and protein binding or whatever, you're not talking about it accurately.

Personally, it makes a lot of sense to me that the immune system is responsible for much more than viruses or bacteria. The need for a class of diseases related to an unhealthy one (autoimmune diseases) is proof IMO

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Re:Viral illnesses may increase chances of developing neurod... by viraptor on Saturday January 21, 2023 @01:31AM (#34464389)
> 'we teach our immune system to fight diseases by showing them weaker versions'

This is a simplification of a well researched process which we understand and can read about. What the previous poster wrote was just speculation as far as I can tell, unless someone wants to post some reference about cleaning the brain and blood?

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Re:Viral illnesses may increase chances of developing neurod... by mxkopy on Saturday January 21, 2023 @01:55AM (#34464479)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spleen

"The spleen plays very important roles in regard to red blood cells (erythrocytes) and the immune system. It removes old red blood cells and holds a reserve of blood, which can be valuable in case of hemorrhagic shock, and also recycles iron."

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Re:Viral illnesses may increase chances of developing neurod... by viraptor on Sunday January 22, 2023 @01:28AM (#34474950)
Yes, but what does that have to do with the context here? (I.e. changes triggered by vaccination)
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Re:Viral illnesses may increase chances of developing neurod... by heavyset_go on Saturday January 21, 2023 @01:07AM (#34464300)
They're speculating, but neither you nor I know if that hypothesis is correct.

Side effects and downstream effects are common across almost all drugs.

It's not absurd or unfounded to hypothesize an explanation for the correlation researchers observed. It could be the case, it could be something else or it could be the case that the correlation means nothing.

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