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Mistaken identity: Influenza/narcolepsy autoimmunity link confirmed
Now there's a proven precedent: A team led by Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD, has shown that the same set of helper T cells responds angrily to both an antigen from a viral protein and an antigen from the bodily protein that's destroyed by the immune system in the course of an autoimmune disease called narcolepsy.
Mignot has devoted much of his career to the study of narcolepsy, a rare and strange sleep disorder that affects 1 in 3,000 people. People with narcolepsy experience irresistible daytime drowsiness and frequent, sudden sleep attacks: intermittent, uncontrollable episodes of falling asleep throughout the day.
In a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Mignot's team provides strong evidence confirming a theory Mignot has pursued since the global swine-flu pandemic of 2009-10: namely, that narcolepsy is an autoimmune disease, and that a trigger for it is an antigen not only found in swine flu (as well as in other versions of the "A" strain of influenza), but — alas — also included in the vaccine hastily developed and massively administered during the pandemic to protect people.
This possibility was suggested by an uptick in narcolepsy cases among patients receiving a version of the vaccine (there were two). Mignot's group believed they'd firmly established the connection in a study they published in 2013, but this study was later retracted at Mignot's urging when he found himself unable to reproduce results of crucial experiments conducted by a co-author.
In the new study, however, Mignot's team used a more-rigorous method to track down the specific set of helper T cells that, indeed, react strongly to both a protein found in the flu virus (and, more so, in the narcolepsy-inducing vaccine version) and a protein residing on key brain cells whose loss induces narcolepsy. The findings carry constructive implications for modifying flu vaccines to exclude autoimmunity-provoking antigens.
Meanwhile, keep this in mind: First, far more lives were saved by the swine-flu vaccine — even the version containing too much of the troublesome antigen — than were impaired by vaccine-induced narcolepsy.
Second, getting the flu is itself a risk factor for narcolepsy, and vaccination has been demonstrated to reduce both the frequency of influenza infection and, among those who have been vaccinated but nonetheless contract the virus, its severity.
The moral of the story? Don't let worries about narcolepsy stop you from getting a flu vaccine.
https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2019/01/07/mistaken-identity-influenza-narcolepsy-autoimmunity-link-confirmed/