> ”Many people will get the infection and very few will get the neurologic disease” A line that’s somehow both frightening and comforting. The environment we g

> ”Many people will get the infection and very few will get the neurologic disease” A line that’s somehow both frightening and comforting. The environment we grow up in increasingly looks like it plays a role in certain neurological disease progression. (See lack of infection playing a role in childhood leukemia [1]) >”Infectious disease tracks with poverty,” he said. “The problem is not infection. The problem is lack of infection.” > There is a similar story at work in type 1 diabetes, Hodgkin’s lymphoma, multiple sclerosis and allergies, he says. 1. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/21/most-common-childhood-cancer-partly-caused-by-lack-of-infection https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/21/most-common-...