You may remember a two–part article I wrote last January on the very complex issue of whether or not a particular H1N1 vaccine might have caused new cases of narcolepsy.

Toward the end of the second part, I wrote the following two paragraphs:

“The group which recently reported on this hypocretin-targeting white blood cell tested the H1N1 virus, to see if the same blood cell that recognizes hypocretin as ‘bad’ would act similarly for parts of the H1N1 influenza virus itself. Lo and behold, they did find that part of the virus triggered a similar reaction in this highly specialized cell. This is one more piece of evidence pointing in the direction that infectious agents may trigger the onset of narcolepsy in genetically-predisposed individuals.

The Nature News piece that summarized these recent findings had a great quote from Gert Lammers, a neurologist working at Leiden University Medical Center…