The race to understand 'immune amnesia'

[Barry]

BBC article, "The race to understand 'immune amnesia'"

Scientists have known for years that measles can alter the immune system – but the latest evidence suggests it's less of a mild tweaking, and more of a total reset.

ETA: Added link that I originally overlooked to include, and @Arnie Pye kindly sorted for me, but thought I'd better include in this post anyway.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesia

 

[Arnie Pye]

Link : https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesia

 

[Barry]

Link : https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesia

Oh ... sorry! (And thanks). I think age must be catching up on me ........

 

[Amw66]

I suspect measles is not the only infection to do this....

Eta . Article says measles is the only infection in humans that does this.

 

[Mithriel]

Wow! Viruses are scary things. When medicine started believing that psychology was the important cause of ill health and not viruses they took a very backward step.

 

[alex3619]

This is of interest to me because the most likely ME trigger for me was measles, followed by Coxsackie 3B decades later.

 

[Barry]

measles – one of the most contagious viruses on the planet, with an R number of 12-18 (meaning each infected person infects that number of others, on average)

That is one hell of a contagion rate.

 

[Kitty]

This is of interest to me because the most likely ME trigger for me was measles, followed by Coxsackie 3B decades later.

My parents said I was never the same again after measles. Although I didn’t have all the symptoms of ME until I was 17, I very clearly remember getting the burning muscle pain in my thighs at a primary school I attended between the ages of 9 and 11. I got measles at my previous school, probably aged about 7 or 8.