A recent discovery revealed that pain-sensing nerves help fight skin infections and prevent its spread suggesting a new type of immunity. These pain-sensing nerves can detect pathogens and for the first time we've shown that they activate an immune response and also signal protective immunity in sites adjacent to the infection. This demonstrates that the immune and nervous systems work synergistically for host defence. These findings also could have important implications for developing more specific therapies for autoimmune skin diseases like psoriasis said Daniel Kaplan the senior author of the study published in the journal of Cell. Until about a