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Pathogens and Humanity – what next?

For centuries humans have experienced a shortening of their life’s potential due to infection and trauma – in most cases the end being brutal and fast. In the Western world through various changes to public health, medicine and diplomacy, these risks have significantly reduced – and until recently, were viewed with complacency. Rather, the wealthier and developing countries have extended lifespan and morbidity time frames, by leading lifestyles that kill us less dramatically, but erode capability...

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Division and Distrust

The year ahead is of course simply a continuation of the prior year, nothing magical occurs on the 1st day of January that creates a clean slate. Our actions, intent and social structure simply roll over, albeit that the Christmas or festive season creates a host of familial challenges, but on a global scale the world marches on. Yet it is in our nature to seek new beginnings, release hope and optimism and search for a better period ahead. Inevitably this will involve hopes that relate to personal...

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Why our immune systems are so flexible

The human immune system possesses immense individual-to-individual diversity, and also has specialised compartmentalisation[1]. (Which means many variations in response, local tissue activity, recovery and outcome on every challenge). Immunity is intrinsically variable, because it is controlled by the most polymorphic (occurring in several different forms) genes and is shaped by highly sensitive, modifiable environmental sensors that can push immunity into myriad functional configurations[2]. The...

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Is Natural Immunity Inviolable?

The obvious answer is NO, otherwise no one would suffer immune related illness and death. The ability of your immune system to respond, repel and return to homeostasis after insult has many influencing factors. Yet our long history of survival as a species indicates that our immune response is adaptive and sustaining, subject to its challenges being manageable. This incredible plasticity involves ‘immunological trade-offs’ and shapes disease outcomes at individual and population scales. These ‘trade-offs’...

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COVID-19 linked to autoimmunity

The understanding of what goes wrong in autoimmune disease, and why, is advancing on numerous fronts[1]. One key question that remains, is what makes some people more likely to experience autoimmunity than others? Gender appears to play a significant part, with autoimmune disease around three times more common in women than in men, with two primary reasons being hormones and chromosomal variations[2]. Genetic variants that increase the risk of autoimmunity are also being identified and researchers...

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Origination Vs Preparation

The source of the Sars-Cov-2 virus[1] has to date been suggested to have either ‘spilled’ over from wildlife to humans, i.e bat to human transmission (zoonotic)[2], or to have emerged, without direct animal transfer from a virology research lab in Wuhan China. Other proposals of origination have yet to make their way into collective consciousness, but no doubt there are some lurking at the edge of plausibility! The research community already accepts that ‘natural spillovers’ occur, these have been...

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Sars Cov-2 and Autoimmunity

“The random scattered errors (noise) in our judgments are at least as damaging and common as the predictable, non-random errors (bias) in them, and the same may be applied to how our immune system is capable of responding to Sars-Cov-2”. Humans are unreliable decision makers; their judgments are strongly influenced by irrelevant factors, such as their current mood, the time since their last meal, their social experiences, inherited patterns of analysis and the weather. The immune system is also subject...

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Covid-19 Vs Sugar – which is the bigger risk?

As the UK progresses towards the current milestones indicated by the government regarding the changing of social restrictions and the possible development of a different societal set of norms, either temporary or prolonged, it is time to start to categorise risk and future health care plans as our work (in health provision) will be in large part shaped by these developments. Clearly, the aim of all countries needs to be focussed on the setting up of a future set of plans, strategies to mitigate future...

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Covid, Acute, Long, Women and Work

As the roll out of vaccination and the staged end of lockdown appear to be coalescing into a shift in planning and return to work, there are numerous questions and challenges to be answered and resolved. The Post-acute COVID-19 Syndrome (Long COVID) First and foremost, is that emerging data suggests that the effects of infection with SARS-CoV-2 are far reaching, extending beyond those with severe acute disease. Specifically, the presence of persistent symptoms after apparent resolution from COVID-19...

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Is A Post Covid-19 Re-Set Something We Can Progress?

It may be helpful to view the last 12 months from a broad historical perspective for us to see the way forward from this pandemic. At this stage, many people strongly believe that the terrible toll it has taken demonstrates humanity’s helplessness in the face of nature’s might. But taken on review, 2020 has shown that humanity is far from helpless. Science has demonstrated, that given time the events of a pandemic induced crisis can be managed, even if political oversight/skill has been found wanting...

Pathogens and Humanity – what next?

Division and Distrust

Why our immune systems are so flexible

Is Natural Immunity Inviolable?

COVID-19 linked to autoimmunity

Origination Vs Preparation

Sars Cov-2 and Autoimmunity

Covid-19 Vs Sugar – which is the bigger risk?

Covid, Acute, Long, Women and Work

Is A Post Covid-19 Re-Set Something We Can Progress?

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