| Man, I hate the way that anything about vaccine side effects gets flanderized into "ANTIVAXXERS!". However I hate the "educate yourself" movement more, so here I am. (I missed out the "can" though, that's on me) First a WHO link.: https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/den... >There is an increased risk of hospitalized and severe dengue in seronegative individuals starting about 30 months after the first dose. TL;DR vaxx good if you've been infected before, but if you're dengue naive, it might raise the risk of severe side effects Now, on the topic of an actual immunological phenomenon with a name out of /pol/'s fever dreams: An In-Depth Analysis of Original Antigenic Sin in Dengue Virus Infection https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3014204/ TL;DR: Original antigenic sin describes a situation where the body's first exposure to an antigen shapes it's future response. This ends tragically in the case of dengue, where the response trained on a serotype is unfortunately overfit. Upon exposure to a different dengue serotype, the immune system defaults the response fit to the original infection, resulting in a response dominated by an inferior antibody. The outcomes are thus worse. From what I'm seeing in more recent publications this model of dengue infection still seems to be the general consensus. As to why I dug into this area in the first place, I live somewhere where dengue was quite the bugbear, and the "second time kills you" story was mentioned quite a bit. Turns out it's a pretty interesting area, since it clashes with the layman concept of immunity. I'm no expert in this domain though, so if I've missed out some progression on the science here, I'd really like to know. Edit: As others have also pointed out, there's also the case where the antibodies even enhance the infection process. |