That's a really interesting question. I have no idea, but I'd be interested to read what someone with relevant knowledge had to say about it.
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That's a fun question to ponder. I don't have a good answer for you. I think it might boil down to the mast cells and whether or not measles kills them in addition to the B and T memory cells. Have you read Immune by Philipp Dettmer yet? If not, you absolutely should check it out. There's an excellent chapter about allergies, as well as a subchapter about measles.
Edit: trying to harness this measles' indiscriminate appetite for long-lived plasma and Memory B and T cells to only those that may be sensitive to allergens seems like a tall order, but it's amazing what immunologists have been able to achieve.
Maybe figure out how to make a measles virus with an antigen that's only similar to the allergen's so it selectively attacks those problematic immune cells. That'd be neat. Sounds REALLY complex in practice.
So, disclaimer. Not a doctor, a microbiologist, a virologist, or anything with actual first hand knowledge. So, keep a salt shaker handy to take this with.
Since worm boy has started running his mouth, I've been casually reading about measles. Just enough that when some idiot echoes him that I can feel comfortable telling them to STFU and GTFO and not wasting my time trying to argue with them. So that's kind of a second disclaimer, I guess, that I haven't read every single line of every single publication out there.
That being said, nah. There have been patients with measles that also had preexisting allergies, and it didn't get rid of them. At best, they were suppressed a little during the illness.
So far, attempts along those lines on purpose haven't worked to an extent that it's worth it. There was some testing done with other means of destroying the relevant immune cells, and the most effect was a temporary reduction in severity of allergic response. They eventually came back in full.
So, assuming you want to cite a rando on the internet, if anyone starts spewing that tripe as a benefit, you can confidently tell them that I said to STFU and GTFO.
I don't know anything about it but I found these 2 articles using google scholar that seem relevant: