The race to understand 'immune amnesia'

BBC article, "The race to understand 'immune amnesia'"

ETA: Added link that I originally overlooked to include, and @Arnie Pye kindly sorted for me, but thought I'd better include in this post anyway.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesia

 

Link : https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesia

 

Oh ... sorry! (And thanks). I think age must be catching up on me ........

 

I suspect measles is not the only infection to do this....

Eta . Article says measles is the only infection in humans that does this.

 

Wow! Viruses are scary things. When medicine started believing that psychology was the important cause of ill health and not viruses they took a very backward step.

 

This is of interest to me because the most likely ME trigger for me was measles, followed by Coxsackie 3B decades later.

 

That is one hell of a contagion rate.

 

My parents said I was never the same again after measles. Although I didn’t have all the symptoms of ME until I was 17, I very clearly remember getting the burning muscle pain in my thighs at a primary school I attended between the ages of 9 and 11. I got measles at my previous school, probably aged about 7 or 8.