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More generally, if you told the immune system to ignore a still existing disease, it would probably be defenseless if/when you actually got infected by it. Or
by BurningFrog 3y ago
More generally, if you told the immune system to ignore a still existing disease, it would probably be defenseless if/when you actually got infected by it.
Or could the immune system maybe override this if you got really sick?
- samus 3y agoAdd I understand it, it's not about actively ignoring something. Rather, the immune system somehow learned to react more strongly to specific antigens, and undoing that. The natural immune reaction should still happen when encountering diseases, and not when encountering normal body tissues. It's possible to use such tricks to actively shut down the immune system, but you either have to incorporate it into the disease (which actually happens in nature) or take that medicine continuously.