Diphteria & virus & iron

[Fièvre]

A french dentist interested in vax question - Dr Jean Méric - writes that diphteria itself doesn't become a serious illness unless its bacterium meets a virus introducing a gene regulating iron consumption . WK is mute on that question ???

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

WK? .................................................. ..............

actually, the french dentist doesn't quite have it right.

the diphtheria bacteria has to meet a virus called a bacteriophage, which in a person who happens to be iron deficient, can then switch on the toxin gene. But if the person isn't iron deficient, that person will just carry the bacteria and nothing will happen

[Fièvre]

Thanks Momtezuma ,
in fact that is the way the - french speaking - belgian dentist puts it .

How was it that so many children were iron deficient when diphteria epidemics occured in the past ? !

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

Thanks Momtezuma ,
in fact that is the way the - french speaking - belgian dentist puts it .

How was it that so many children were iron deficient when diphteria epidemics occured in the past ? ! Why do you think that might have been so? What might the common factors have been? Why did 50% of rich kids in London in 1920 have rickets?

[Fièvre]

:unsure:I bet you would have said breastfeeding if only kids of rich families were stricken

Lack of meat ? :red: