Assertion: encephalitis | /r/CapableOf | bareache the blood-brain-barrier
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text: It can be caused, in very broad terms, one of two ways: either through an infection (ordinary, everyday infections, such as the flu, herpes simplex and measles, among others) bareaching the blood-brain-barrier and mounting a direct infectious attack on the brain, or through a person’s own immune system detecting something it considers unfamiliar (these might be tumours, or proteins in the brain), and the immune system attacking the brain in error.