{"id":871741,"date":"2026-10-05T15:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T15:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/871741\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T15:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T15:54:10","slug":"measles-can-erase-up-to-73-percent-of-your-immune-systems-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/871741\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles can erase up to 73 percent of your immune system\u2019s memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"L2ISROGRPFCVPATK4JS44C42P4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">My sister says there\u2019s no real difference between a child getting the measles vaccine and just catching measles, since either way the child ends up immune. Is she right?<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"2QVY5SH42NENFE6DIJCQTY2BVM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">I wouldn\u2019t describe it as \u201cjust catching measles.\u201d In the United States, about 1 in 5 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/interactive\/2025\/measles-vaccine-schools-outbreaks-public-health\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_6\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/interactive\/2025\/measles-vaccine-schools-outbreaks-public-health\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_6\">unvaccinated people<\/a> who get measles is hospitalized, and 1 to 3 of every 1,000 children infected will die, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My sister says there\u2019s no real difference between a child getting the measles vaccine and just catching measles,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-871741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}