Maria Godoy

Once you have an outbreak, you want to go and vaccinate anyone around who is not vaccinated. And then you also need good contact tracing, which means you need the people to be figuring out who was exposed and contacting them right away before they go and expose others and spread this.

Once you have an outbreak, you want to go and vaccinate anyone around who is not vaccinated. And then you also need good contact tracing, which means you need the people to be figuring out who was exposed and contacting them right away before they go and expose others and spread this.

The vaccine is... Mm-hmm. But it used to kill 400 to 500 people every year in this country. And even today, measles can have serious consequences. As many as 1 in 20 cases result in pneumonia. 1 in 1,000 kids will die or end up with severe brain swelling called encephalitis. And it can also lead to blindness.

The vaccine is... Mm-hmm. But it used to kill 400 to 500 people every year in this country. And even today, measles can have serious consequences. As many as 1 in 20 cases result in pneumonia. 1 in 1,000 kids will die or end up with severe brain swelling called encephalitis. And it can also lead to blindness.

The vaccine is... Mm-hmm. But it used to kill 400 to 500 people every year in this country. And even today, measles can have serious consequences. As many as 1 in 20 cases result in pneumonia. 1 in 1,000 kids will die or end up with severe brain swelling called encephalitis. And it can also lead to blindness.

Correct. So this is something that happens to some extent in every single measles infection. I talked to Stephen Elledge. He's a researcher at Harvard. And he explained that it's kind of like your immune system gets amnesia.

Correct. So this is something that happens to some extent in every single measles infection. I talked to Stephen Elledge. He's a researcher at Harvard. And he explained that it's kind of like your immune system gets amnesia.

Correct. So this is something that happens to some extent in every single measles infection. I talked to Stephen Elledge. He's a researcher at Harvard. And he explained that it's kind of like your immune system gets amnesia.

Basically what happens is the measles virus can destroy the cells that retain the memory of how to fight pathogens that your body has previously defeated.

Basically what happens is the measles virus can destroy the cells that retain the memory of how to fight pathogens that your body has previously defeated.

Basically what happens is the measles virus can destroy the cells that retain the memory of how to fight pathogens that your body has previously defeated.

And this amnesia, like the extent of it can vary widely. His studies of unvaccinated kids who were recovered from measles found that anywhere from like 11 to 73 percent of their antibodies had been wiped out after an infection. Wow. And this effect can last two to three years.

And this amnesia, like the extent of it can vary widely. His studies of unvaccinated kids who were recovered from measles found that anywhere from like 11 to 73 percent of their antibodies had been wiped out after an infection. Wow. And this effect can last two to three years.

And this amnesia, like the extent of it can vary widely. His studies of unvaccinated kids who were recovered from measles found that anywhere from like 11 to 73 percent of their antibodies had been wiped out after an infection. Wow. And this effect can last two to three years.

Yeah, at this point, there's really no need to panic. Vaccination rates are still high enough in most of the country to stop a major deadly outbreak from spreading widely.

Yeah, at this point, there's really no need to panic. Vaccination rates are still high enough in most of the country to stop a major deadly outbreak from spreading widely.

Yeah, at this point, there's really no need to panic. Vaccination rates are still high enough in most of the country to stop a major deadly outbreak from spreading widely.

But if vaccination rates continue to fall as they have been for several years now, experts I've spoken with say in 5 to 10 years, we could be back to the days where measles outbreaks regularly infected thousands of people and killed kids every year. Yeah.

But if vaccination rates continue to fall as they have been for several years now, experts I've spoken with say in 5 to 10 years, we could be back to the days where measles outbreaks regularly infected thousands of people and killed kids every year. Yeah.

But if vaccination rates continue to fall as they have been for several years now, experts I've spoken with say in 5 to 10 years, we could be back to the days where measles outbreaks regularly infected thousands of people and killed kids every year. Yeah.