{"id":5200,"date":"2026-06-01T12:32:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucrc-mali.com\/?p=5200"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:05:27","slug":"immune-amnesia-does-measles-wipe-out-existing-immunity-to-other-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucrc-mali.com\/?p=5200","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab Immune Amnesia \u00bb : Does measles wipe out existing immunity to other diseases?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A research project at the University Clinical Research Center (UCRC) in Bamako is studying &#8220;immune amnesia&#8221; in children aged 1 to 15. This phenomenon occurs when the measles virus wipes out previously acquired immune defenses against other diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Led by Prof. Issa Konat\u00e9, an infectious and tropical diseases specialist and hospital practitioner at the Point G University Hospital, the study follows two cohorts of children. The goals are to confirm this hypothesis, quantify the loss of protective immune cells, and adapt public health management programs in Mali and the sub-region. More details on the  <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kaA3QhhHRRw\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kaA3QhhHRRw\">VIDEO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>UCRC\/USTTB Communication Office<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100069526162571\">Join us on FACEBOOK<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@UCRCUSTTB\"><strong>Join us on YOUTUBE<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Join us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/university-clinical-research-center-ucrc-mali-764928352\/\">LINKEDIN<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Join us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UCRC5\">X-PAGE<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research project at the University Clinical Research Center (UCRC) in Bamako is studying &#8220;immune amnesia&#8221; in children aged 1 to 15. This phenomenon occurs when the measles virus wipes out previously acquired immune defenses against other diseases. Led by Prof. Issa Konat\u00e9, an infectious and tropical diseases specialist and hospital&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucrc-mali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucrc-mali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucrc-mali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucrc-mali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucrc-mali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ucrc-mali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5204,"href":"https:\/\/ucrc-mali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions\/5204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucrc-mali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucrc-mali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucrc-mali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucrc-mali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}