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Hunting down tolerated infections and vaccinating against them.

BorkleX01
in Microbiology and Immunology

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Hi everybody, I'm looking for advice about the plausibility of a claim someone has made.

 

The claim is that there can at any time be a number of possible infections, both viral and bacterial, located throughout the body and that somehow, the immune system has become tolerant to these infections, which results in a number of possible chronic inflammatory conditions.

 

Further to this claim is that it is possible to identify these infections via blood assays (probably via lymphocyte counts) and, once identified, introduce antigen specific vaccines to eliminate the infections completely. The person making these claims informs me there are 28 possible infections that can be tested for and eliminated over a period of time between 6 months to 2 years.

 

How does this sound? Are these claims far fetched by today's standards of immunotherapy?

 

Thanks. Would really like to get hear from you.

 

 

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