And You Did Not Believe Me Poem by Michael Walkerjohn

"errors of immunity
inborn to infections, a
rule rather than the exception"
function, protection, battle, rejection
prior to the early 1900's your expectancy of
living was the equivalent of 25 years, period!
Smear that little figure around in your marble
holder for a short moment or more… if you can!
It is more than logically pointed out that our "husks"
are sorely lacking in the one thing: that "coevolving
microbes" in nature are not… adjustment to an
ever changing environment… the reason our
human lifespan has increased is the questionable
ability for some of the species… to figure out for the
majority of the species; how not to die from some very
common "bugs" and, from some extraordinarily virulent
rather nasty ones… it is the given then that the vast majority
of human beings… retain "a natural vulnerability to infectious
diseases" … the result: being a species with a great big Santa
sack of "diversity of inborn errors of immunity" … I told you
we were all blood relations… and you did not believe Me!

J Exp Med.2005 Jul 18; 202(2) : 197-201.
doi: 10.1084/jem.20050854
PMCID: PMC2212996
PMID: 16027233