Measles remains a danger to health even years after an infection
Updated April 4, 2025
...the teen's parents took him to a series of doctors to figure out what was wrong, until a pediatric neurologist finally suspected a condition called subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE. It's a degenerative neurological condition that typically develops seven to 10 years after a measles infection. It is almost always fatal. Cvijanovich was part of the hospital team that confirmed the diagnosis....
...there's a common consequence from measles infection you might not know of: It can erase your immune memory.
"Not only does your brain have a memory, but your immune system has a memory of all the pathogens it's encountered in the past," says Stephen Elledge, a professor in the genetics department at Harvard Medical School who studies how the immune system responds to pathogens....
LINK:https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5328765/measles-outbreak-health-risk
