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No.
Fascinating, I get downvoted a lot, ok, I can see that this might not have been the best joke, that is fine, but apparently I am factually wrong as well, though no one could be bothered to tell me why.
The measle vaccine injects a very weakened version of the measle virus. The point is that the body doesn’t like these body-foreign entities and thus tries to destroy them, getting “trained” to do the same when a real measles virus enters your body.
Since the weakened measles virus most likely doesn’t reproduce, you don’t really have the measles (the disease).
Disclaimer: I’m not a doctor.
Well that is a matter of definition, I consider breaking a finger and breaking a leg to both mean that you have broken a bone.
Your body still fights the measle virus, you are still infected with it, even if it is a lesswr variant.
If someone threw the dead body of a robber into a store, would you also call that store being robbed?
I get what you mean, but if you read the comment I responded to, it mentions a weakened version of the virus, not a dead one.
Okay, different example. If a country dropped a couple of wounded soldiers without weapons over another country's territory, would you call that an invasion?
I get what you mean, but yeah, if the soldiers are on duty and haven't got permission from the other country to enter their land, technically it is an invasion.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/basics/explaining-how-vaccines-work.html