• Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Tough to say what I would’ve contracted without vaccines. But the upper bound is 10, when I had pneumonia and relied on antibiotics.

  • Vilian@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    how long would you have lived

    no.

    my mother(her anti-bodies) would have killed me in the womb :D

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      7 months ago

      TIL that being allergic to your own baby is a thing that can happen

      I swear, the more I learn about biology the more shocked I am that we’ve survived 4 billion years

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        7 months ago

        Fun fact, after you have a kid with someone the mother can no longer receive organs from you, even if you were comparable previously. It’s because the baby is partially composed of the fathers proteins, and although the immune system is suppressed during pregnancy, it still recognizes those proteins. So the next time it encounters them, it considers them a foreign invader and attacks them, leading to an automatic rejection of the organ.

  • Monzcarro@feddit.uk
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    7 months ago

    Childbirth, but my son’s birth, not mine. Lost a lot of blood and had to have meds to slow it, surgery to stop it, and a transfusion to replace it.

    I don’t think anything would have got me before then, but I’m vaccinated, so who knows?