Several variants of Malaria can be The Gift That Keeps On Giving: https://www.mmv.org/malaria/symptoms-and-treatments/relapsin...

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nomel 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Measles can cause immune amnesia [1], which I find fascinating, and maybe somewhat obvious: our immune system has limited/fragile "memory".

[1] https://asm.org/articles/2019/may/measles-and-immune-amnesia

	▲	manwe150 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Apparently there is no known limit, so we could vaccinate for everything, repeatedly, without risking forgetting. Unlike getting the illness or antibiotic use, where there is limits and fragility as a possible result

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timr 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Malaria is not a virus. It's caused by a eukaryotic microorganism.

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ChrisMarshallNY 15 hours ago | parent [-]

I know. I guess that I should have mentioned that.

However, from the article, it seems that they believe that COVID just whacks the immune system, in general, so everyone gets to belly up to the bar.

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Animats 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

No, they're not saying that. Measles whacks the immune system.[1] COVID, fortunately, does not do that. What it does long-term is still badly understood.

[1] https://asm.org/articles/2019/may/measles-and-immune-amnesia

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timr 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Just to be clear: "they", in this case, is a cherry-picked sample of scientists by a journalist.

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ChrisMarshallNY 15 hours ago | parent [-]

I think that's pretty much always the case, these days. Shouldn't be a problem, finding a cherry-picked sample to refute it.

	▲	timr 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Rebutting this kind of stuff turns into a link-sharing competition. For any debated theory I can show you a thousand links saying the opposite of whatever claim is being advanced, but you'll just assume my links are self-selected. Look at the content of the article. Literally every quote in this piece is some scientist speculating. That's completely fine, and what scientists do, but the "journalist" is spinning it into a narrative of "scientists believe X", which is both true (some scientists can be found to support literally any claim), and misleadingly over-confident.