Does anyone have an interest in infectious disease and how it might relate to autoimmune disease?

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Yeah. Well, my rhumatologist describes autoimmune diseases as the body’s immune defenses ‘switching on’, and then not being able ‘switch off’, not just ‘randomly attacking for no apparent reason’.

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