Give us this day our daily germs.
Rook GA, Stanford JL
Dept of Bacteriology, UCL Medical School, London, UK. g.rook@ucl.ac.uk
Modern vaccinations, fear of germs and obsession with
hygiene are depriving the immune system of the information input upon which it
is dependent. This fails to maintain the correct cytokine balance and fine-tune
T-cell regulation, and may lead to increased incidences of allergies and autoimmune
diseases. If humans continue to deprive their immune systems of the input to
which evolution has adapted it, it may be necessary to devise ways of replacing
it artificially.
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