• A protein found in human sweat may protect against Lyme disease

    From Primum Sapienti@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 9 13:52:15 2024
    Interesting notion. We have an evaporative cooling
    system that also has other protective attributes.

    https://news.mit.edu/2024/protein-found-human-sweat-may-protect-against-lyme-disease-0319

    Lyme disease, a bacterial infection transmitted
    by ticks, affects nearly half a million people
    in the United States every year. In most cases,
    antibiotics effectively clear the infection, but
    for some patients, symptoms linger for months or
    years.

    Researchers at MIT and the University of Helsinki
    have now discovered that human sweat contains a
    protein that can protect against Lyme disease.
    They also found that about one-third of the
    population carries a genetic variant of this
    protein that is associated with Lyme disease in
    genome-wide association studies.
    ...

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