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Back in the 1960s, the U.S. started vaccinating kids for measles. As expected, children stopped getting measles.
But something else happened.
Childhood deaths from all infectious diseases plummeted. Even deaths from diseases like pneumonia and diarrhea were cut by half.
“So it’s really been a mystery — why do children stop dying at such high rates from all these different infections following introduction of the measles vaccine,” says Michael Mina, a postdoc in biology at Princeton University and a medical student at Emory University.
Scientists Crack A 50-Year-Old Mystery About The Measles Vaccine Photo credit: Photofusion/UIG via Getty Images
Using computer models, they found that the number of measles cases in these countries predicted the number of deaths from other infections two to three years later.
“We found measles predisposes children to all other infectious diseases for up to a few years,” Mina says.
And the virus seems to do it in a sneaky way.
Like many viruses, measles is known to suppress the immune system for a few weeks after an infection. But previous studies in monkeys have suggested that measles takes this suppression to a whole new level: It erases immune protection to other diseases, Mina says.
VACCINATE. YOUR. DAMN. KIDS.
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glossymoss
Omg rly ??
yes! really!
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desbreaux
Okay so I just got off the phone with them. I talked to a trans girl named Aurora & she was super helpful! She gave me a few doctors to talk to & encouraged me to seek therapy instead of just rushing to get my pills. She literally found a trans friendly therapist in my town & I would definitely recommend giving them a call!
GUYS COME SEE THIS!!!!!! I didn’t know about this, come look!!!!!!
art-adventures-with-sil
it literally would not be right to ever not reblog this
For any trans followers I have. Stay safe and know you are loved
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oldfarmhousefallfeatures
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an exploration in waves
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THINGS TO ROMANTICIZE
- going 2 bed on time
- healthy romantic relationships
- eating without worrying about calories
- living alone
- non-traditional career paths
- loving yourself
- being old and happy
feel free to add on!!
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(HO(HO(HO(HONK)NK)NK)NK)
spiritual successor to the “THE BEES......” one (except now it’s wasps)
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wrestling edit challenge ➳ wrestler you want to win a championship this year
Orange Cassidy
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hourly comic i posted on twitter
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Entry and Exit wound sizes
this is so fascinating for some reason… can anyone explain why the exit wound is bigger?
benbullseye
bascially what happens is that all the kinetic energy in the bullet hits a single point (your body) and the energy is directed through the pointy end. once the bullet is inside your body (ow) the energy is spread out into your tissue and the bullet is slowed down (from like 1000mph to 700mph, good job body) by all the fun stuff inside you like bones, fat, tissue, muscle. so the bullet makes a compression wave but your body is not very compressionable (because you are mostly water) so all that fun stuff just has to…move out of the way of the bullet (double ow). all your tissue and stuff just tries to get out of the way and in turn the bullet hits more tissue until the bullet is out of your body, and uh, takes a sizable chunk of you with it (souvenir!)
this doesn’t really account for bullets designed to expand (really ow) and hallow point (oh frig dude ow)
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