Not The Onion

14865 readers

2058 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

kescusay@lemmy.world

378

RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’ (www.thedailybeast.com)

submitted 1 day ago by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

93 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] formergijoe@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not only that but measles can cause immune amnesia! Which is when "the immune system forgets how to fight off infections it successfully dealt with before—and [research] showed that this effect lasts for years!"

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 19 hours ago

not only forgets, but the measles infects the dendritic cells which presents antigens to T-cells(i thought it was b-cells) which fights the viruses, so its actually immunosuppression.

[–] FreeRangeMustard@lemm.ee 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I did not know that and thinking of that stuff like this is possible is fucking scary.