New study from Vietnam confirms Peter Aaby's observations on measles:
Compared with unvaccinated uninfected children, measles infected children had higher risk of hospitalisation in the first month, but thereafter their risk was substantially lower. bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
Compared with unvaccinated uninfected children, measles infected children had higher risk of hospitalisation in the first month, but thereafter their risk was substantially lower. bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
Measles infection seems to train the immune system so it becomes better at defending itself against other unrelated disease organisms in the future.
But of course, this training comes with the risk of becoming severely ill from the infection itself. academic.oup.com/aje/article/14…
But of course, this training comes with the risk of becoming severely ill from the infection itself. academic.oup.com/aje/article/14…
A safer way to obtain the immune training is measles vaccine, a live attenuated vaccine, which basically can be seen as a controlled way of getting a mild measles infection. Measles vaccine is also associated with lower risk of other infections. #NSEvac jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
Add-on: only in preprint, but in a randomised trial, measles-containing vaccine was associated with a 48% (17-67%) risk reduction in symptomatic COVID-19 and a 76% (12-94%) risk reduction in COVID-19 treatment. More trials underway: medicine.wustl.edu/news/global-tr… medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
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