For decades, scientists couldn't figure out why the measles vaccine didn't just lower death rates from measles, but from other diseases too. Now we know it's because measles causes immune amnesia. Measles resets the immune system. It forgets how to fight every single pathogen it's ever encountered.
I keep wondering why measles' amnesia mechanism hasn't been leveraged against autoimmune issues and allergies.
Fascinating article.
From a 2019 study about measles: "The researchers show that the measles virus wipes out 11 percent to 73 percent of the different antibodies that protect against viral and bacterial strains a person was previously immune to"
Study reveals how measles infection reduces protection against other diseases
For those curious about the current state of knowledge (as of Feb 2023) about what COVID does to the immune system:
Have you heard that, apparently, COVID-19 is “airborne AIDS?” “I think that that epithet is horrifying and beyond offensive,” Edward Nirenberg tells me. He is a science communicator with a deg...
That's terrifying and interesting. Could this possibly have an application in the treatment of autoimmune disease?
So, save the fetuses so they can die of this. Great plan, MAGA.
I know Kurgesgzagt (?) gets a bad rap for a lot of its stuff but their series on human immune systems was truly top class stuff. Really helped me understand how diseases *make us sick* and how we fight them
I did not know this, wow! Selfish people are really determined to screw us all
