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What is this “may” - syphilis has been known to do this fairly directly for a long time, long before Tuskegee or anything like that. it shouldn’t be surprising
by olliej 4y ago
What is this “may” - syphilis has been known to do this fairly directly for a long time, long before Tuskegee or anything like that.
it shouldn’t be surprising that more viruses do this (the reality seems more to be that traditionally viruses that cross the blood brain barrier, like most things, result in rapid death so no real time for people to show symptoms we’d call neurodegenerwtion)
- whatshisface 4y agoSyphilis is a bacterial infection that grows, among other places, in your brain. Pneumonia viruses live inside your airways, and if anything happens in your brain it's because of the immune system doing something bad. They are very different things. In particular, >Finally, it is known that about 80% of the viruses observed in this study can invade the nervous system and trigger the immune system’s inflammatory response. So this fits in to the bigger picture that inflammation in your CNS from any source will do lasting damage.