<story><title>Viral illnesses may increase chances of developing neurodegenerative diseases</title><url>https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/could-viral-illness-increase-chances-developing-alzheimers-or-other-neurodegenerative-disease</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ccleve</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a lot more to the relationship between pathogens and neurological conditions. This article has some good information: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;return.life&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;endemic-pathogens&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;return.life&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;endemic-pathogens&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; (Please ignore the clickbaity tone, there&amp;#x27;s actually good stuff here).&lt;p&gt;We know there are a ton of correlations. We don&amp;#x27;t have causal links, although there is quite a bit of speculation about inflammation.</text></comment>
<story><title>Viral illnesses may increase chances of developing neurodegenerative diseases</title><url>https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/could-viral-illness-increase-chances-developing-alzheimers-or-other-neurodegenerative-disease</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>_Microft</author><text>Related: there was also a strong correlation between receiving some vaccinations and &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; developing dementia during the next five years. This included vaccinations against diseases that people normally do not get. This hints at a reason other than simply „avoided disease“.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I found the submission. Actually it was a study on influenza vaccination that included a comment about other vaccines:  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=31899781&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=31899781&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wrote a summary in this comment:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=31900161&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=31900161&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>