“Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory infection RSV than existing antibody therapies, and are now being developed as preventative treatments.”
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One of my long-held beliefs is that living in NYC (taking the subway all the time, playing at the playground, going to school) for the first 5-8 years of their lives imbued my kids with a general resistance to illness that suburban/country kids just don't get in the contemporary US. No idea how based in fact that is though.
The flipside of this is farm kids & Amish kids are often studied for their impressive resistance to diseases. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/health/dust-asthma-children.html
There's an SMBC comic where the only survivors of the a great plague were the kindergarten teachers who then built a new society that was much more caring and kind so it all worked out in the end. (Of course I can't find it to link to...)
This one?
Yes! (Bookmarking now)
Stands to reason that the people (doctors) who are exposed to the people who get sick all the time (kids) build up better antibodies than the rest of us do…
I am convinced, with no evidence to back it up, that my bullet proof immune system is due to working in my parents video library in the 80's and 90's.
Anyone who was off work sick would come down and take out videos for something to do. Never mind the day-to-day of people talking a thing into their home and bringing it back to you carefully wrapped in the box you gave them.
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