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San Francisco The multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), which was observed primarily at the beginning of the pandemic, is probably the result of molecular mimicry: According to a study in Nature (2024; DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07722-4), some antibodies of the immune system that are directed against a nucleoprotein of SARS-CoV-2 also bind to a section of the protein SNX8, which leads to an attack on the body’s own cells….