SciShow | How Measles Vaccines Protect You From Other Diseases


Episode Title: How Measles Vaccines Protect You From Other Diseases
Produced by: SciShow
Description: Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try out Brilliant’s Daily Challenges. The first 200 subscribers get 20% off an annual Premium subscription. Since measles vaccines started making their rounds, child mortality has dropped by up to 90% percent in some countries. That’s more than you’d expect if the measles vaccine just prevented deaths from measles. Can science explain this increased survival rate? Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07515-0 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/03/measles-vaccine-protect-disease-immune-amnesia/ https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(07)03604-4/fulltext https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1002885 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1600-065X.2010.00925.x https://thepathologist.com/subspecialties/measles-induced-immune-amnesia https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/measles-vaccine-may-help-thwart-other-infectious-diseases/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0163445317301858 https://jvi.asm.org/content/92/8/e00131-18 https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1002885 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25954009 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6235/694 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2747240/ https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/8/11/e021465#ref-6 https://jlb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1189/jlb.5RI0315-096R https://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6284/aaf1098


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