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If anyone you know needs reminding of why vaccines are important, take a closer look at what happens if get the measles (which, if you're not vaccinated and you encounter a contagious person, you are almost guaranteed to catch). #SOTU buff.ly/W6zwuKk

wired.comHow Measles Hacks the Body—and Harms Its Victims for YearsThe virus is the most contagious in the world, exploiting the human body's immune system to spread with extreme agility and harming its victims for years.
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It can affect some patients for years, by wiping out the body's catalog of prior infections. This means you can get sick much more often.

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And because it effectively hijacks your immune system, it's incredibly dangerous for people whose immune systems are already in a weakened state—cancer patients on chemotherapy, people who’ve recently had an organ transplant, elderly people, and infants. Their systems can’t bounce back.

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