Others have written about [undiagnosed] chronic infection with immortal bacteria in chronic inflammatory diseases. In this 2016 article, the authors suggest a relationship between chlamydia pneumonia and Alzheimer’s, arthritis, asthma, atherosclerosis, and cancer; and that the innate immune system reacts to chronic infection to cause inflammatory disease.

An immortal pathogen, or combinations of immortal pathogens, can cause the same or different diseases in different patients. Immortal pathogens trigger an immune system reaction and an infectious cascade. Specialization in medicine separates diseases, without consideration of a possible common root cause.

“Chlamydia pneumoniae Infection and Inflammatory Diseases”https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30687565/