Peter Attia· MD
when the virus is in the nerve cells the immune system can't see it
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when the virus is in the nerve cells the immune system can't see it
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so when you get chickenpox you clear the virus and it forms what is known as an episome in neurons and just sits there latent without causing infection for years and years and years and essentially all of us die with the virus that gave us chickenpox it just stays with you for life
and it always starts in a nerve cell because it's been latent in a nerve cell that's the site of latency