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| | dynomight.net
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| | How the immune systems memory cells are like the Russian strategy for resisting Napoleons invasion.
| | berthub.eu
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| | (On this page in Dutch I post daily bits of realistic but hopeful Corona news. Here is a somehat rough translation of an article on our immune system I posted there, because I think it might also be useful for people that don't speak Dutch). Wednesday, April 1st COVID-19 can only live thanks to us. Viruses cannot reproduce independently, they need our help. And our immune system makes this very hard, as aptly explained in this excellent xkcd comic:
| | asm.org
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| | Measles is much more serious than a rash and fever: it also causes immune amnesia and leaves patients especially vulnerable to secondary infection.
| | www.wired.com
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| Two leading candidates are headed for mass clinical trials, and everything's on the table-including deliberately infecting healthy vaccine volunteers.