Tuesday, November 12, 2019

How Measles Leave the Body Prone to Future Infections

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Based on the NIH health information topics you requested to receive information about, we thought you'd be interested in this story from the NIH Director's Blog.

Boy with Measles

How Measles Leave the Body Prone to Future Infections

Posted on  by Dr. Francis Collins

As a kid who was home-schooled on a Virginia farm in the 1950s, I wasn't around other kids very much, and so didn't get exposed to measles. And there was no vaccine yet. Later on as a medical resident, I didn't recognize that I wasn't immune. So when I was...

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