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Ep 21 Measles: The Worst Souvenir

This Podcast Will Kill You

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The Effects of Measles on Memory

So does that mean that if you get infected, let's say with something again, then you will not develop protective antibodies to that. You could continue to get reinfected with that. I don't know if it, it, it transiently suppresses your immune system overall. And then it wipes out all of your memory cells. But after the period of immune suppression, so like after a few weeks or months, you would be able to then mount an immune response,. but it's just that it would have, it would be like mounting an immune response all over again. That's amazing. So measles infection is not just, it can kill you by killing you outright. It's

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