Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned

[presta]

Apparently, measles wipes your immune system's memory, so you lose immunity to all the other diseases you'd already acquired it for.

 

[ColinJ]

Apparently, measles wipes your immune system's memory, so you lose immunity to all the other diseases you'd already acquired it for.

Yikes - I didn't know that either!!

I just found this article about it on the BBC website.

 

[keronmp]

Apparently, measles wipes your immune system's memory, so you lose immunity to all the other diseases you'd already acquired it for.

That is really horrifying.

 

[presta]

I just found this article about it on the BBC website.

That's a bit more readable than the one I found on a university website.

In a similar bit different vein: according to this, if you screen a population for a disease, the screening reduces the mortality rate for that disease, but not the all-cause mortality. The reduced risk of dying from one thing is offset by an increased risk of dying from something else.