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  • Mar 18, 2025, 2:13 PM

    You: "Eh, it's just measles. No big deal."
    Science: "Essentially, when you're infected with measles, your immune system abruptly forgets every pathogen it's ever encountered before – every cold, every bout of flu, every exposure to bacteria or viruses in the environment, every vaccination. The loss is near-total and permanent. Once the measles infection is over, current evidence suggests that your body has to re-learn what's good and what's bad almost from scratch." bbc.com/future/article/2021111

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  • Mar 18, 2025, 11:24 PM

    Also, even if you were vaccinated as a child, you nevertheless might not be immune to measles if you were born between 1957 (when a vaccine came out that didn't always work) and 1968 (when a better vaccine was released). I just got a "childhood" Measles Mumps Rubella ("MMR") vaccine at age 63 because measles is continuing to spread and I'm in that unsweet spot.

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