Understanding multiple infections-mutation, evolution, medication

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Amazing research in medicine has helped us cure infectious diseases, understand microbes and their mutations. But the correlation between two infections in the same infected host, or microbes in the same ecosystem is often under appreciated. For a breakthrough in biological sciences in understanding mutations, evolution of micro-life and better design medications, I believe it is important to take an approach to study infections in an infected person. When I have flu, what happens if I live with other people that have flu. They may have different species of microbes or those with different mutations. I may get further flu-my infection may get worse. Or some of the microbes may reduce each other’s immunity-strengthening my immunity. The microbes may very well influence each other’s mutations.What happens when I have flu and I am surrounded by people with Entamoeba coli infections. Will the microbes causing flu have less effect on the people with E. Coli infections or more. What kind of effect will those E. Coli have on my flu-causing microbes? To better understand mutation and evolution, I believe looking at how two infections, or infections of two different colonies influence each other, may lead us to surprising answers and better understanding. It is often in the under developed communities, that more than one infection is prevalent. The diversity in the ecosystem nourishes the microbes with more interactions leading to change in their immunity and mutations. The catch is that alongside getting a better understanding about communicable diseases, since we also advance our understanding of immunity, evolution and mutation; we might find answers to the effect of immunity on genetically linked diseases like diabetes, a better understanding of our microbiome, cancerous mutations and many other diseases that have yet remained incurable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incurable_diseases As we become more optimistic about a future with personalized health care, let's get to studying diverse ecosystem of microbes with research centers specialized to study the correlation between the differences in multiple infections. With such resources, hopefully we can appreciate the adaptation of the microbes to the different climatic and geographic factors. The next time a global epidemic like the recent Ebola breaks out, hopefully we will have more sets of drugs, personalized for different regions so that we have to worry less about the chances of the same medications working on people in different regions.

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