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Letter: Thanks for bolstering my suspicion about measles

Published 27 November 2019

From David Muir, Edinburgh, UK

Debora MacKenzie reports that measles massively damages the immune system (9 November, p 15). In 1960, before vaccination was available, I had two weeks off school with measles. On the first day back, I came home covered in chickenpox. For decades I have suspected that there was some relationship.

Thanks to Â鶹´«Ã½, I now know that this was probably the case. Given the information in the article, I count myself lucky to have got off so lightly.

Issue no. 3258 published 30 November 2019

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