People aged 16 or over who live with immunosuppressed adults should be prioritised for covid-19 vaccination alongside priority group 6 (people to 65 have a clinical condition that puts them at higher risk), the UK government’s vaccine advisory committee has said. This would include people living in households an adult weakened immune system, such as those …

Not in the UK (yet), although you may be eligible for a third dose. A booster is given to people who have received full vaccine course and developed good response. That immune response often wanes over time, so doses are “boost” previous levels. Third being immunocompromised such that their was likely been lower. Immune systems can …

Asbestos is the principal agent in the etiology of malignant mesothelioma. However, a small proportion of people exposed to asbestos develop mesothelioma. This suggests the role of host factors in the genesis of the tumor. A genetic susceptibility is suggested by the occurrence of more mesothelioma cases among blood-related members of a single family. Such an occurrence reached about 4% in a la...

Background: Long-term and intensive physical exercise can change the function of different cells in the immune system in athletes, predisposing them to viral infections such as coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The purpose of this brief report was to provide protocols related to the immune system in athletes to prevent infectious diseases. Methods: To examine immune system res...

background: hepatitis c (hcv) is a worldwide problem without an effective vaccine with more than 170 million chronically infected people worldwide. dna vaccines expressing antigenic portions of the virus with adjutants have recently been developed as a novel vaccination technology. objectives: in the present study, a dna vaccine expressing hcv core protein was developed with il12 as a genetic a...

The body’s immune response to viruses has long been thought spark autoimmune disease. A virus affecting millions of people could help researchers finally know for sure.

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#### Notable in Neurology This Week This issue features an article that investigates whether long-term disability people with multiple sclerosis can be predicted by a retinal spectral-domain optical coherence tomography assessment at baseline; another describes the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among patients myasthenia gravis. A featured Views & Reviews examines neurologic imm...