Unvaccinated Florida kids exposed to measles can skip quarantine, officials say

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Unvaccinated Florida kids exposed to measles can skip quarantine, officials say
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On Tuesday, nearly 20 percent of the school's 1,067 students were reportedly absent.

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Everything. The adaptations your body has learned to fight other diseases are stored as T-cells. When you need more of that particular kind of thing, your body goes and runs off copies. Measles kills your T-cells, so your body can't copy the old adaptations, only make blank-slate factory-new ones.

TIL we found the factory reset button for the human immune system.

If only. You'd think it could potentially fix some auto immune disorders as a side effect, but nope, all negatives.