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Curios on the subject. How would a vaccine cause arthritis? I assume they are injecting you with a protein so the body produces antibodies. Could the antibod
by adrr 11y ago
Curios on the subject. How would a vaccine cause arthritis? I assume they are injecting you with a protein so the body produces antibodies. Could the antibodies/immune response cause arthritis?
- voidlogic 11y ago> Could the antibodies/immune response cause arthritis? A lot of peoples arthritis is auto-immune.
- ghaff 11y agoLyme disease can cause a type of arthritis and it was hypothesized that the vaccine might result in a similar autoimmune response in certain genetically-disposed individuals. There are many more details about Lymerix and what happened here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/ [EDIT: Just to be clear though, there was no evidence in the numbers that the vaccine in fact caused arthritis.]