Seems accurate! Since you read the article, the real question to me is what is the brain protecting against? If amyloid plaques are a defense mechanism that ha

Seems accurate! Since you read the article, the real question to me is what is the brain protecting against? If amyloid plaques are a defense mechanism that happens to permanently block neuron function, then what happens if that the plaques don't form and the herpes infection spreads? There doesn't have to be an answer, evolution doesn't cause improvements, people reproduce before this happens.