ANTC68H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Passive Immunity, Social Distance, Attenuated Vaccine
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Immunity after getting it once in excess of 250,000 people. Nutrition: measles caused by virus, measles mortality is highest in malnourished populations, but the multifactorial nature of nutrition and confounding with social factors make it impossible to define its importance specifically. Immunity: passive immunity (in womb) lasts about 6-8 months, measles can be prevented by vaccine given 3 days after exposure, vaccine should not be given to women or children allergic to eggs, also called rubeola. Age and measles: duration of maternally derived protection. Treatment & prevention: exposure to other children, quarantine was introduced about a century ago, vaccination. History: the earliest account of measles comes from an outstanding physician of the muslim world in 910 ad, accounts summarized in a 20 volume treatise. Antc68: 1946 - peter panum described the incubation period & lifelong immunity, enders & peebles isolated the virus in humans, 1963 - first attenuated vaccine licensed in the us.
