RE: What are autoimmune diseases? Why do we get them?

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What are autoimmune diseases? Why do we get them?

in science •  7 years ago  (edited)

This is another hypothesis of how autoimmune diseases arise known as the cryptic infection hypothesis. As far as I am aware the current evidence is now swaying in favour of the hygiene hypothesis as opposed to the cryptic infection hypothesis.

Here is a link to more information on this hypothesis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12848953

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