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Serious infections linked to dementia risk, study shows. Longitudinal neuroimaging of 982 adults showed that flu, herpes, respiratory tract infections and skin infections were associated with accelerated loss of brain volume particularly in the temporal lobe, an area containing the hippocampus


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