measles

(noun)

Rubeola, an acute highly contagious disease, (often of childhood) caused by a virus, featuring a spreading red skin rash, fever, runny nose, cough and red eyes

Related Terms

Examples of measles in the following topics:

  • Rash

    • For instance, a rash may be the result of an allergic reaction or a disease such as measles.
    • Measles is caused by the measles virus.
    • The characteristic measles rash is classically described as a generalized, maculopapular, erythematous rash that begins several days after the fever starts.
    • The measles rash appears two to four days after initial symptoms, and lasts for up to eight days.

  • Overcoming Density-Dependent Regulation

    • For example, reported cases of measles in the United States dropped from around 700,000 a year in the 1950s to practically zero by the late 1990s .
    • Globally, measles fell 60 percent from an estimated 873,000 deaths in 1999 to 164,000 in 2008.
    • Measles cases reported in the United States, represented as thousands of cases per year, declined sharply after the measles vaccine was introduced, in 1964.

  • Vaccine Safety

  • Viral Pneumonia

    • Viruses that primarily cause other diseases, but sometimes cause pneumonia, include herpes simplex virus (HSV, mainly in newborns), varicella-zoster virus (VZV), measles virus, rubella virus, and cytomegalovirus (CMV, mainly in people with immune system problems).
    • Because of this, the best prevention against viral pneumonia is vaccination against influenza, adenovirus, chickenpox, herpes zoster, measles, and rubella.

  • Vaccines and Immunity

    • The success of the polio vaccine paved the way for the routine dispensation of childhood vaccines against measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, and other diseases.
    • Other viruses, such as those that cause the childhood diseases measles, mumps, and rubella, mutate so infrequently that the same vaccine is used year after year.

  • Vaccination

    • Even today, the risk of contracting some of these infectious diseases, like measles and chicken pox, can have devastating, long-term complications, like blindness.

  • Development of New Vaccines

    • The implementation of large-scale, comprehensive national immunization programs, and the considerable successes that were achieved in the eradication of smallpox and the reduction of polio, measles, pertussis, tetanus, and meningitis, were among the most notable achievements of the 20th century.

  • Passive Immunization

    • Passive immunity to measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) usually lasts for about a year, which is why the MMR is given just after the baby's first birthday.

  • Preventing Illness

    • Polio vaccine, smallpox vaccine, measles vaccine, mumps vaccine and others have greatly reduced many childhood diseases.

  • Airborne Transmission of Disease

    • Many types of infections that can be a result of airborne transmission include: Anthrax, Chickenpox, Influenza, Measles, Smallpox, and Tuberculosis.