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Infections are back in the news, with the Kent meningitis B outbreak dominating headlines. But my attention was also caught by two studies out this week that shed light on our susceptibility to other diseases at different time points of our lives.
One looked at just how many different bugs infants get when they start attending nursery. The second looked at the other end of our lives, at old age.
Together they made me think about how much our susceptibility to different diseases changes over time – and what we can do to optimise our immune functioning at different stages.
