> <i>”Many people will get the infection and very few will get the neurologic disease”</i><p>A line that’s somehow both frightening and comforting. The environment we grow up in increasingly looks like it plays a role in certain neurological disease progression. (See lack of infection playing a role in childhood leukemia [1])<p>><i>”Infectious disease tracks with poverty,” he said. “The problem is not infection. The problem is lack of infection.”<p>> There is a similar story at work in type 1 diabetes, Hodgkin’s lymphoma, multiple sclerosis and allergies, he says.</i><p>1. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/21/most-common-childhood-cancer-partly-caused-by-lack-of-infection" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/21/most-common-...</a>
Is AFM the same as AFP? At least with AFP, it was always believed to have come from a reverted polio virus <a href="https://youtu.be/S8ixbGlHTTI?t=2459" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/S8ixbGlHTTI?t=2459</a>
It’s a poliolike disease that appears predominantly in areas with low vaccination rates.<p>So I can’t imagine that this “polio like” disease is not just a small mutation of plain old polio. Made possible by anti-vaxxers.