The more I learn about how many viruses can have long-term consequence, the more I wonder if a large part of aging is just dealing with the damage viruses leave in their wake.
I've heard that people were really surprised to find that the overall death rate -- not just death rate from measles -- went down after the measles vax was developed. It turned out that measles was kind of "erasing" immunity, but nobody had known until it went away.
How many more things will go away with vaccination?
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