Our Enemy
This is not
a “Frivolity” by any stretch of the immagination, but as it isn’t about ovarian
cancer I stuck it here,
You probably
know more about how the immune system works than I do; it wouldn’t take
much. Well, Francis Collins has provided us with a blog concerning Covid 19 - more specifically about how we might combat it - that
I found very interesting. The gist is
something like this:
The virus we now
are contending with is a member of a “family”; specifically, the coronavirus family. Other members include SARS, MERS, and several of the bugs responsible for the common cold. All
members of this family are structurally and/or biochemically similar. Seems that “memory” T cells activated by these
various coronavirus-type diseases hang around for decades – and sometimes,
somehow, under some circumstances, may be effective against our current
tormentor. This was discovered by some
guys in Singapore; it may lead to an effective vaccine. Much work is ongoing, in Singapore and
elsewhere. Let us fervently hope.
So maybe those childhood "colds" were a blessing in disguise. Well, probably not.
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