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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Can measles erase the body's antibody memory?
« on: 21/03/2021 17:49:25 »
Yeah, measles creates immune amnesia. It came to light because when measles jabs were given in the third world, childhood mortality went down massively, lagging by about two years- whereas the measles vaccine acted almost immediately. Turned out, having had measles in the last two years left the immune system as a smoking ruin that took a while to get working again, and that leaves people susceptible to getting diseases that can kill them.
Allowing for that effect, it turns out that measles was indirectly killing up to 1% of the people it infected- making it even worse a disease than people thought it was.
Allowing for that effect, it turns out that measles was indirectly killing up to 1% of the people it infected- making it even worse a disease than people thought it was.
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