{"id":155119,"date":"2015-05-11T14:43:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/11\/jessicalprice-npr-back-in-the-1960s-the\/"},"modified":"2018-09-08T16:18:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T16:18:25","slug":"jessicalprice-npr-back-in-the-1960s-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/11\/jessicalprice-npr-back-in-the-1960s-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-155119 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/11\/jessicalprice-npr-back-in-the-1960s-the\/attachment\/155120\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tumblr_no16gkhn0O1qdkv8qo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tumblr_no16gkhn0O1qdkv8qo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tumblr_no16gkhn0O1qdkv8qo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/jessicalprice.tumblr.com\/post\/118456319293\/npr-back-in-the-1960s-the-u-s-started\" target=\"_blank\">jessicalprice<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/npr.tumblr.com\/post\/118438946961\/back-in-the-1960s-the-u-s-started-vaccinating\" target=\"_blank\">npr<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Back in the 1960s, the U.S. started vaccinating kids for measles. As expected, children stopped getting measles.<\/p>\n<p>But something else happened.<\/p>\n<p>Childhood deaths from all infectious diseases plummeted. Even deaths from diseases like pneumonia and diarrhea were cut by half.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s really been a mystery \u2014 why do children stop dying at such high rates from all these different infections following introduction of the measles vaccine,\u201d says  <a href=\"http:\/\/med.emory.edu\/MDPHD\/trainees\/current_students\/mina_michael.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Mina<\/a>, a postdoc in biology at Princeton University and a medical student at Emory University.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/goatsandsoda\/2015\/05\/07\/404963436\/scientists-crack-a-50-year-old-mystery-about-the-measles-vaccine?utm_source=tumblr.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_term=nprnews&amp;utm_content=20150508\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Scientists Crack A 50-Year-Old Mystery About The Measles Vaccine<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Photo credit: Photofusion\/UIG via Getty Images<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Using computer models, they found that the number of measles cases in these countries predicted the number of deaths from other infections two to three years later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found measles predisposes children to all other infectious diseases for up to a few years,\u201d Mina says.<\/p>\n<p>And the virus seems to do it in a sneaky way.<\/p>\n<p>Like many viruses, measles is known to suppress the immune system for a few weeks after an infection. But previous studies in monkeys have suggested that measles takes this suppression to a whole new level: It erases immune protection to other diseases, Mina says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>VACCINATE. YOUR. DAMN. KIDS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jessicalprice: npr: Back in the 1960s, the U.S. started vaccinating kids for measles. As expected, children stopped getting measles. But something else happened. Childhood deaths from all infectious diseases plummeted. Even deaths from diseases like pneumonia and diarrhea were cut by half. \u201cSo it\u2019s really been a mystery \u2014 why do children stop dying at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/11\/jessicalprice-npr-back-in-the-1960s-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4369,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155121,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155119\/revisions\/155121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}