Researchers connect severity of 'kissing disease' to T-cell population
Date:
December 5, 2017
Source:
American Society for Microbiology
Summary:
Acute infectious mononucleosis (AIM), also known as mono or the 'kissing disease,' is caused by the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV). In a new paper...
http://mbio.asm.org/content/8/6/e01841-17
Severity of Acute Infectious Mononucleosis Correlates with Cross-Reactive Influenza CD8 T-Cell Receptor Repertoires
Nuray Aslan a,
Levi B. Watkin a,
Anna Gil a,
Rabinarayan Mishra a,
Fransenio G. Clarka,d,
Raymond M. Welsh a,
Dario Ghersi b,
Katherine...
This paper seems to me to be fairly reported. Also no promotion of CBT or GET that I recall.
Personally I am more excitable (physically) with the illness and it can take quite a while if I have got excited to calm down so it seems plausible to me that the parasympathetic response may be lower...
It may depend how things are defined. I think there might be at least as much if not more sympathy on average if a woman had to become the sole bread-winner for a family if a husband/male partner became unable to work than if the genders are reversed where a man might be more expected to take on...
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