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David Shultz
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Oct 31, 2019

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The Measles Virus Makes You Sick, Then It Causes ‘Immune Amnesia’

Yet another reason to get your kids vaccinated

Photo: Karl Tapales/Getty

WWhen the measles vaccine first became available in the 1960s, something curious happened: Scientists began to notice a drastic drop in the number of children dying from other infectious diseases as well.

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