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Can Tonsil Removal Provoke Polio or Autoimmune Disease?

Once a widely recommended and very common surgical intervention, tonsillectomy has fallen out of grace.

Aug 10, 2023
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can tonsil removal provoke polio

By: Tessa Lena

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

  • Today, the tonsils are known to play an important role in our immune response

  • For a long time, the scientific consensus was that they were “useless” organs, and doctors routinely recommended tonsil surgeries just in case

  • It is estimated that in 1959, 1,400,000 tonsil surgeries were performed in the United States

  • Once a very c…

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