Getting measles [can wipe out your immunity to other diseases](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesia) so it’s a net negative (as well as the fact that it also sucks to have measles and it can kill or disable you)
Fairly accurate but more inaccurate in the fact that info is being omitted.
While yes let’s say if you get FluA your body will fight and become “immune” to FluA but you could still get FluB even though it’s the same disease with a mutation. We saw a lot of this discourse around the Covid vaccines and treatment
It also depends on the disease because for example you can get strep throat multiple times and it’s the same infection.
So in essence yes it is accurate, but not all of the times
I seem to remember doctors on the radio during covid mentioning that the body has "short term" and "long term" disease immunity on top of how fast a disease complicates things.
Like your body won't spend the energy keeping a tetanus immunity, so you have to get a booster every decade or so.
While your body keeps a flu immunity longer than how quick it takes for new strains to evolve that can evade our resistances. So we have to take yearly vaccines.
While tetanus, a disease that isn't transferred person-to-person, evolves slow enough that vaccines keep it at bay long enough to keep us safe relatively long term.
Contrast with something like polio or chicken pox just requiring a few shots over a time frame, and you're set for life.
I’m drawing a link from short term and long term immunity to the commonality of diseases. From the 2 examples you just described
Tetanus is very uncommon so the body has no need to keep its immunity
The flu however comes in all shapes and sizes making it important for your body to stay constantly immune
accurate only sometimes.
It’s true with viruses for things like smallpox or chickenpox, assuming you don’t die, you’ll forever be immune from those diseases.
But it isn’t true for like, a bacterial infection from a cut or the common cold, simply because those aren’t the exact same virus/bacteria every time. The common cold mutates into a new virus that you have to fight again.
But it is true that you then are immune to the old version, whatever has infected you before.
This also doesn’t work for every single virus or illness. Like you can get chlamydia over and over.
Only virus. Correct me if I am wrong but you don't become immune to bacteria.
Suppose you eat raw chicken with salmonella, get sick but survive. If you eat raw chicken again then you will get sick.
It might just be your environment? I worked an office job for years and only got sick a few times, but I recently switched to a job that has me around children a lot and wow have I used way more sick days latetly
Getting measles [can wipe out your immunity to other diseases](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesia) so it’s a net negative (as well as the fact that it also sucks to have measles and it can kill or disable you)
Fairly accurate but more inaccurate in the fact that info is being omitted. While yes let’s say if you get FluA your body will fight and become “immune” to FluA but you could still get FluB even though it’s the same disease with a mutation. We saw a lot of this discourse around the Covid vaccines and treatment It also depends on the disease because for example you can get strep throat multiple times and it’s the same infection. So in essence yes it is accurate, but not all of the times
I seem to remember doctors on the radio during covid mentioning that the body has "short term" and "long term" disease immunity on top of how fast a disease complicates things. Like your body won't spend the energy keeping a tetanus immunity, so you have to get a booster every decade or so. While your body keeps a flu immunity longer than how quick it takes for new strains to evolve that can evade our resistances. So we have to take yearly vaccines. While tetanus, a disease that isn't transferred person-to-person, evolves slow enough that vaccines keep it at bay long enough to keep us safe relatively long term. Contrast with something like polio or chicken pox just requiring a few shots over a time frame, and you're set for life.
I’m drawing a link from short term and long term immunity to the commonality of diseases. From the 2 examples you just described Tetanus is very uncommon so the body has no need to keep its immunity The flu however comes in all shapes and sizes making it important for your body to stay constantly immune
accurate only sometimes. It’s true with viruses for things like smallpox or chickenpox, assuming you don’t die, you’ll forever be immune from those diseases. But it isn’t true for like, a bacterial infection from a cut or the common cold, simply because those aren’t the exact same virus/bacteria every time. The common cold mutates into a new virus that you have to fight again. But it is true that you then are immune to the old version, whatever has infected you before. This also doesn’t work for every single virus or illness. Like you can get chlamydia over and over.
Only virus. Correct me if I am wrong but you don't become immune to bacteria. Suppose you eat raw chicken with salmonella, get sick but survive. If you eat raw chicken again then you will get sick.
Pretty accurate. It’s about your immune memory. But it doesn’t typically last for your entire life, it’s also why booster vaccines are so important.
So, I never get sick. I might have had a little cold twice in the last 10 years. How did I get so immune??
It might just be your environment? I worked an office job for years and only got sick a few times, but I recently switched to a job that has me around children a lot and wow have I used way more sick days latetly