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#146 – Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Measles Really a Trojan Horse?
Michael Mina: Measles is highly detrimental to humans, but what I think is just immensely fascinating. It gets into the immune system, serves almost as a Trojan horse and instead of getting eaten by these cells, it just takes them over. We've done studies in monkeys and you can watch it just destroy and obliterate people's immune memories like some parasite might destroy somebody's brain.
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