Measles is known for its characteristic rash, but it can have serious respiratory and neurologic complications. - ThreadSky

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Measles is known for its characteristic rash, but it can have serious respiratory and neurologic complications.

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midflight20.bsky.social•50 days ago

And blindness.

buzrex.bsky.social•49 days ago

Also SSPE, which is fatal, and can show up years and years later.

The fatality rate for SSPE is so close to 100% that it's not worth giving arguing the 8th decimal point.

curi0z.bsky.social•50 days ago

I think one of the most underreported and scariest facts is that an infection can wipe out immunity against all sorts of other diseases, erase effects from vaccinations. 😱

fungibev.bsky.social•50 days ago

That really surprised me!

fungibev.bsky.social•50 days ago

https://asm.org/articles/2019/may/measles-and-immune-amnesia

Found an interesting article about this from the American Society for Microbiology.

curi0z.bsky.social•50 days ago

Thank you for providing this! I couldn't remember where I had read it.

fungibev.bsky.social•50 days ago

There are probably a lot of sources for this information, but I like this article because it was well-written and fairly easy to understand.

west845.bsky.social•50 days ago

Has anyone mentioned that the number of measles infections can increase exponentially? (R is the reproduction number.)

Measles has an R value of >12. So:
1, 12, 144, 1728…
Once it gets started, it can go fast.