Sixth Sense: What Your Immune System Knows From: The Washington Post | Date: April 19, 1999| Author: Rick Weiss | Copyright 1999 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Lots of people talk about having a "sixth sense," a way of perceiving the world other than by the standard channels of seeing, smelling, tasting, hearing or touching. Now a growing cadre of scientists is coming to believe that the body actually has such a sense.

They're not talking about extrasensory perception or intuition, though. Rather, the body's humble and hard-working immune system deserves recognition as a sensory organ of sorts, these scientists say.

According to this em...

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