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The vaccine-preventable disease that erases your immune system's memory, then itself.
means A highly contagious viral illness causing fever, cough, and a spreading red rash, now preventable by vaccine.
from Traced to Middle English 'maseles' or 'mesles,' related to Middle Dutch 'masel' meaning blemish or pustule. The word simply described the telltale spots before anyone understood the virus beneath them.
- immune amnesia
- wipes out antibodies against diseases you already survived
- contagion rate
- one person infects 12 to 18 others unvaccinated
- airborne lifespan
- lingers in a room up to 2 hours later
- vaccine efficacy
- two doses give about 97 percent protection