How To Use Measles In A Sentence

Measles, mumps and rubella are unpleasant diseases and an epidemic in this country would be disastrous.
Her mother Mandy, 38, has now urged all parents to have their children vaccinated with the MMR jab, which protects children against measles, mumps and rubella.
Many details of the after treatment depend upon the special disease, as the rubbing of the body with carbolized vaseline after scarlet fever, the care of the eyes after measles, and other particulars of which space does not admit mention here. A Practical Physiology
It is possible that one or both of these pandemics were due to smallpox, or even measles.
While we are on the verge of eliminating measles from the United States, increased travel can lead tospread from other countriesas evidenced by a measles outbreak associated with an international youth sporting eventthat occurred in three states in the U.S. during the fall of2007. MMR: Measles, Mumps and Rubella Vaccine

Adults are often immune to German measles.
HIV belongs to a group of viruses known as "enveloped" viruses, which also includes influenza, mumps, measles, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, Ebola and SARS. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
A lot of children in the school caught measles last term.
Let me know when your boy comes down, and also about the measles, cowpock, and whooping-cough; also if all's right with Mr. Plaskwith. Night and Morning, Complete
Measles in pregnancy can cause miscarriage, premature labour or a baby with low birth weight.
The sickly cannonier, who had the constitution of a rhinoceros, and had never had a day's illness since he got over the measles at the age of four years, waited a little, and tried the second "dodge," usually resorted to in such cases. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
The children all had measles, and had broken out in spots.
Animal research has led to vaccines for rabies, smallpox, rubella, measles and anthrax.
It said evidence pointed overwhelmingly to MMR as the most effective and safest way of protecting children from measles, mumps and rubella.
Those who were born before 1956 are considered to be immune to measles and mumps and don't require these vaccines.
Measles is an infection.
But the youngest died of measles at a very young age.
It is not less infectious than measles or influenza, and even if it were, it is much more fatal.
Measles is highly infectious and could spread very quickly.
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The possible effects of measles are so awful that I didn't want to leave my children open to that.
Scientists are monitoring the course of the measles epidemic throughout the state.
A vaccine against measles, for example, introduces a highly weakened strain of the disease into the body. Times, Sunday Times
Ohno S, Seki F, Nakatsu Y, Tahara M, et al. (2005) Long untranslated regions of the measles virus M and F genes control virus replication and cytopathogenicity. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
It was once thought to be associated with infection, such as measles or chickenpox.
His commitment to revenge the death of his people was struck short by his own death in the next measles epidemic, five years later.
Measles is caused by a paramyxovirus and usually affects children.
Rubella is just another name for German measles.
When I was a kid in the mid-1940s, can't remember the exact date but it was the year I had measles, we put up brightly-printed linen bunting for our street party in celebration of VE day.
First, you can make sure you are up to date on all vaccine-preventable diseases like measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella.
But here you are and here I am, and you've got the measles.
Mariam had become blind at the age of five as a result of measles.
Measles is a highly infectious viral illness that can cause pneumonia, diarrhoea, encephalitis and death.
Children often died of measles or diphtheria in the late 1800s.
Ignore evidence that my histopathology colleagues doubted the gut biopsy specimens had any abnormal changes present, and go ahead and publish that they all had significant inflammation (attributing this to measles virus damage from the vaccine). On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
In Africa, private philanthropy is buying vaccines for measles and hepatitis.
When he caught the measles from Sairy Baxter's baby Lizzie sot up day 'nd night till he wuz well, holdin' his hands 'nd singin' songs to him, 'nd cryin' herse'f almost to death because she dassent give him cold water to drink when he called f'r it. A Little Book of Profitable Tales
There are four clades that meet both of these criteria (74.2% - 99.9% nucleotide identity): the Sendai clade, the human parainfluenza-3 clade, the measles clade, and the phocine/canine distemper clade.
That's because children were vulnerable to infectious diseases such as scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough and measles.
I remember being goaltender for most of the year because I was back-up goalie and the goaltender got the measles for most of the season.
Measles in pregnancy can cause miscarriage, premature labour or a baby with low birth weight.
Children survived as a result of a combined effect of sulfa drugs, vaccinations for whooping cough and measles, antibiotics, and corticosteroids.
Seventy-five of 91 children with autism were found to have measles virus in intestinal biopsy tissue as compared with only five of 70 patients who didn't have autism. Hot Topics: Autism
They may catch other infections such as measles or chicken-pox, with serious consequences due to their deficient immune system.
The principal recorded killers were smallpox, influenza, measles, typhoid, typhus, chickenpox, whooping cough, tuberculosis and syphilis.
Vaccination is currently below the level needed to avoid epidemics of measles - a potentially life-threatening infection.
Among vaccine-preventable childhood diseases, only measles was reported, but no diphtheria, tetanus or whooping cough.
It is the one great weakness of Dickens as a great writer, that he did try to make that sudden sadness, that abrupt pity, which we call pathos, a thing quite obvious, infectious, public, as if it were journalism or the measles. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
Let us consider a case of measles. Banish Headaches -how to obtain fast, drug-free relief from headache
The doctor told her to watch out for symptoms of measles.
The World Health Organization has mounted emergency immunization campaigns for cholera, measles and polio to try to head off the worst effects of these diseases in Darfur.
Doctors insist the jab is safe and that a failure to give children the immunisation could lead to an outbreak of mumps, measles and rubella.
Patients given vaccines against measles, mumps and rubella, polio, rabies and Japanese encephalitis are not affected.
The likely explanation is thought to be a local, highly neurotropic, measles virus.
I have had to import single vaccines for mumps, measles, and rubella for these families from Europe and Japan.
· Meningo-ncephalitis (e.g. measles, arbovirus): supportive treatment as for coma: feeding-hydration, nursing. Chapter 6
Children with measles are at especially high risk of xerophthalmia, and should be given vitamin A when the illness begins. Chapter 31
Measles is a highly contagious disease that can infect the lungs causing fatal pneumonia or the brain causing encephalitis. Vaccines and Society
Viruses including flu, herpes, measles and chickenpox can cause pneumonia.
Last year the number of measles cases in London doubled on the year before. Times, Sunday Times
These schematized formations recall aerial ballets, spiraling nebulae or orbiting planets, tracings of tiny fireballs, even measles and skin rashes.
Bethany also acts as her parents' ears as both are deaf, since contracting measles in childhood.
Edit when we called sauerkraut ‘Liberty cabbage’ and somebody actually proposed calling German measles ‘Liberty measles’ 400 (minus 1) - The Panda's Thumb
They are also at risk from diseases such as influenza and measles, which can be deadly to people who have no natural resistance to them. Times, Sunday Times
Even if a child survives the measles (rubeola), it may leave them blind or visually impaired. Spokesman.com: Latest stories
Anne tells Kitty that she is worried about Daddy, who has a fever and a rash, which looks like measles.
For instance, there are over 150 cases of measles, which is huge and can rapidly lead to the death of thousands, in the over-crowded Dadaab camp. Dr. Bill Frist: Inside Dadaab Refugee Complex: What Is Working, What is Not
Measles in pregnancy can cause miscarriage, premature labour or a baby with low birth weight.
Having a taste for "ghastliness," I had rather longed for the wounded to arrive, for rheumatism was n't heroic, neither was liver complaint, or measles; even fever had lost its charms since "bathing burning brows" had been used up in romances, real and ideal; but when I peeped into the dusky street lined with what I at first had innocently called market carts, now unloading their sad freight at our door, I recalled sundry reminiscences I had heard from nurses of longer standing, my ardor experienced a Hospital Sketches
Animal research has led to vaccines for rabies, smallpox, rubella, measles and anthrax.
Young man, urticaria is hives, rubeola is measles, and alopecia is baldness!" she thundered. The Bat
Laryngitis may also be a feature of bronchitis, pneumonia, flu or measles.
Available epidemiological data are consistent with a directly protective effect of vaccine against SSPE mediated by preventing measles.
It's worth checking you are definitely immune to German measles. The Sun
Chickenpox, measles and rubella were the only notifiable diseases recorded in children under 15 in Orkney during 2000, according to new Government figures.
The serum was also used in vaccines against measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria and whooping cough until as late as 1993.
Unless vaccine uptake improves rapidly, major measles epidemics are likely in the UK this winter.
Old friends were failing, such as Stanfield, Lewis, and Roberts: but new men were growing up, among whom Ruskin welcomed G.D. Leslie, F. Goodall, J.C. Hook, -- who had come out of his "Pre-Raphaelite measles" into the healthy naturalism of "Luff Boy! The Life of John Ruskin
Objective To evaluate the anti virus effect of combination of attenuated measles virus with 3TC on duck hepatitis B model.
This is true, as a rule, of measles, scarlet fever, whooping-cough, small-pox, and varioloid.
In addition, endemic diseases, such as yaws, and epidemic diseases, such as measles and smallpox, may have increased the incidence of stillbirths and miscarriages.
Angus was given the mumps, measles and rubella inoculation when he was 15 months old.
MMR stands for measles, mumps, and rubella (also called German measles). Giving your child the MMR vaccine protects them against these diseases.
She had her rubella vaccination when she was fourteen, but when she was sixteen, she still caught the measles.
There is no proof of the safety and effectiveness of single jabs for measles, mumps and rubella, scientists said yesterday.
But vaccination rates have fallen across Britain over fears that the jab could be linked to autism and a bowel disorder - leading to warnings of possible measles epidemics.
Or that the nation is apparently in the grip of a measles epidemic. Times, Sunday Times
Measles increases the con-sumption of vitamin A and often precipitates xerophthalmia. Chapter 13
Doctors have long considered cancer to be a group of diseases, not a single condition like measles or flu. Times, Sunday Times
Anyone who has not had measles or who hasn't been vaccinated and has been in contact with someone who actually has the disease or is incubating it.
For me acting was like catching measles. Times, Sunday Times
Conjunctivitis can also be a symptom of other infections such as measles or leptospirosis, a bacterial infection.
RECORD numbers are seeking protective jabs in a city gripped by a measles epidemic. The Sun
Long ago, in the days of her childhood, her Aunt Ella had once said of her: "If only Billy didn't go into things all over, so; but whether it's measles or mud pies, I always know that she'll be the measliest or the muddiest of any child in town! Miss Billy -- Married
If, say, measles had shown such an increase, we should now be talking about a major epidemic.
These findings were comparable with the study from South Africa which showed a seronegativity of 20 per cent for measles among fully immunized population, 72 per cent for mumps and 66 per cent for rubella.
Children in the West do not die of measles when they are well nourished.
The number of confirmed cases of measles has increased dramatically this year. Times, Sunday Times
We used to routinely isolate people who had measles.
Of course, marked differences in the evolution of any disease in patients are well-known; for instance, measles, usually considered anywhere as a relatively benignant disease, could, in Africa, involve a tremendous infant mortality, likely generated by intercurrent malaria.
An emergency meeting of Skipton school headmasters and managers met to discuss an outbreak of measles in the town.
A measles vaccine was found to contain low levels of the retrovirus avian leukosis virus Rotateq, Merck's rotavirus vaccine, was found to contain a virus similar to simian (monkey) retrovirus Rotarix (GlaxoSmithKine's rotavirus vaccine) was found to contain "significant levels" of porcine cirovirus 1 LewRockwell.com
Almost all children need to be inoculated to prevent measles, mumps and rubella regaining a grip.
There is a similar story to be told in vaccination, which was supposed to spell the end of infectious diseases such as measles. Times, Sunday Times
To measles we can add smallpox, tuberculosis, malaria, typhus, typhoid, influenza and syphilis.
The thought of measles may bring to mind the red, blotchy rash that often accompanies this disorder.
Naturally, the mother concludes the report unenlightened, and afraid of the consequences both of the vaccine, and of measles.
At the turn of the century, health care seems to have come light years from the days of leeches, country-side doctors and a lack of remedies for ailments such as polio, rubella and the German measles.
Higher temperatures will mean increased incidences of vector-borne diseases like malaria, dengue and measles.
These included coxsackie and echoviruses, measles, rubella, smallpox, rabies and herpes viruses as well as viruses causing hepatitis, respiratory and arthropod-borne infections.
Some, like chicken pox and measles, are instantly recognisable. The Sun
Adults are often immune to German measles.
Measles, mumps, and rubella are infections that can lead to significant illness.
But instead of treating the fit as a disease, "musclemen" professors are wont to represent it as a state of health, and to let their disciples run about in middle age with the measles on them as strong as ever. Tom Brown at Oxford
Sven Wilson finds that soldiers who became ill with measles or respiratory illness while serving were likely to suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in their old age.
Measles is a highly contagious respiratory infection caused by the morbillivirus.
There's only one problem: the contagions we are now resistant to are not Measles, Mumps and Rubella.
In scarlet fever in from three to five days, rarely later than a week; in measles in from nine to fourteen days, occasionally as late as twenty days; in whooping-cough in from one to two weeks; in chicken-pox in from fourteen to sixteen days; in German measles in from ten to sixteen days. The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses
It also is used to ripen eruptive diseases such as measles; and promotes diaphoresis, making it useful for fevers.
Look at "Nervous Systems" which reads "Encephalitis; encephalopathy; measles inclusion body encephalitis (MIBE) (see CONTRAINDICATIONS); subacute scloerosing panencephalitis (SSPE); Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS); febrile convulsions; afebrile convulsions or seizures; ataxia; polyneuritis; polyneuropathy; ocular palsies; paresthesia. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Several members of Congress, spurred by groups like SafeMinds and the National Autism Association, have alleged that the Centers for Disease Control and other public health agencies covered up evidence that the measles vaccine and shots containing thimerosal, a preservative, caused what they described as a nationwide epidemic of autism and other diseases. Arthur Allen: Congress Finds Nothing Underhanded About CDC's Thimerosal Work
Yet measles, malnutrition and diarrhoea remain tediously commonplace causes of death in all too many parts of it in the first years of the twenty-first century.
In Africa, however, measles is still killing children.
Having a taste for "ghastliness," I had rather longed for the wounded to arrive, for rheumatism wasn't heroic, neither was liver complaint, or measles; even fever had lost its charms since "bathing burning brows" had been used up in romances, real and ideal. "A Day" from Hospital Sketches and Camp Fireside Stories
The Charleston Courier says that the measles is sweeping through the army, and that over 3000 are ill. The Civil War in America
There had been outbreaks of measles that winter in the Midlands Health Board region and in the west of the country.
I'm filling in for my cousin who has the measles.
Among the older children, 19 had been inoculated with measles vaccine.
It's a fair sickener to think of all the diseases there are -- measles and softenin 'of the brain, and' eaving stummicks and what not. The Blue Germ
Measles increases the con-sumption of vitamin A and often precipitates xerophthalmia. Chapter 13
The department said measles is a highly contagious illness that is spread through coughs, sneezes and contact with nasal or oral secretions from people who were infected. Possible measles exposure at National
If we are exposed to a measles virus, the immune system will develop antibodies specifically designed to attack measles viruses.
Viruses including flu, herpes, measles and chickenpox can cause pneumonia.
Look at "Nervous Systems" which reads "Encephalitis; encephalopathy; measles inclusion body encephalitis (MIBE) (see CONTRAINDICATIONS); subacute scloerosing panencephalitis (SSPE); Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS); febrile convulsions; afebrile convulsions or seizures; ataxia; polyneuritis; polyneuropathy; ocular palsies; paresthesia. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Several times we observed a faint icteric coloring and in some cases the appearance on neck and breast of an exanthema resembling measles. Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated
Johnny would probably get pneumonia, or a childhood disease such as whooping cough or measles, and die.
Some Indian tribes experienced epidemics of measles and influenza, with infant mortality rates reaching 50 percent.
These include measles and some foodborne infections.
A look back through the meticulously archived school records shows youngsters' sick notes reporting everything from whooping cough, mumps and measles to scarlet fever and typhoid as lethal epidemics tore through the school.
Vitamin A deficiency increases the risk of severe illness, and even death, from common childhood infections such as diarrheal diseases and measles. What foods, minerals, vitamins, and fatty acids help your eyes?
Thousands of the Aztecs died from ordinary diseases - measles and the flu.
Patients given vaccines against measles, mumps and rubella, polio, rabies and Japanese encephalitis are not affected.
The serum was also used in vaccines against measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria and whooping cough until as late as 1993.
Because all APCs are mobile, and can travel throughout the body (including the intestine), it is plausible that a child immunized with MMR would have measles virus detected in intestinal tissues using a very sensitive assay. Hot Topics: Autism
THE measles epidemic is thought to have claimed its first victim after a young dad was found dead in his flat. The Sun
The vaccine is used to immunise children against measles, mumps and rubella.
Then right on its heels came mottled chlorosis—the poinsettia leaves were shaped fine, they just looked as if they had contracted measles. BAD GIRL CREEK
In recent weeks an epidemic of measles broke out.
As a virulent strain of the measles spreads among the students, the town doctor puts Plumfield under quarantine.
But he is now convinced there is no evidence of any risk from the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine.
Maybe I should come down with a case of the measles before Friday.
This is hardly surprising in an age when resistance to infectious disease was weak and a whole host of endemic maladies — infantile diarrhea, dysentery, scarlatina, measles — very often proved fatal, above all to infants and young children. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
In Anhui Province , there were measles outbreak every 2 - 3 years before implementation of EPI work.
Many different preparations of the measles vaccine are available, all containing small amounts, at most, of the egg protein ovalbumin.
Tests confirmed last night that he was infected with measles but a postmortem examination is yet to establish whether the disease killed him. Times, Sunday Times
His bouts with the chicken pox and the measles, his allergies and colds had left him so thin and pale. WEB OF DREAMS
The Public Health Minister said the vaccine remained the best form of protection against measles, mumps and rubella and most recent information suggested uptake was on the increase.
Many children succumb to diarrhea, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, measles and malnutrition.
How many cases of mumps, measles, or rubella would the lack of vaccination of this number of children produce?
The viral etiology of measles- or rubella-like illnesses after MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccination was studied prospectively in 993 acutely ill Finnish children with fever and rash in 1983-1995.
Elder flowers are a popular herbal treatment for all bronchial and pulmonary affections, scarlet fever, measles and other eruptive diseases.
Rubella is just another name for German measles.
There are fears that cases of rubella, also known as german measles, will increase owing to declining rates of vaccination with MMR, leaving mothers-to-be at risk of catching it from children.
And you are more likely to catch measles than cervical cancer, aren't you? Times, Sunday Times
Measles, also called rubella, is a highly contagious - but rare - respiratory infection that's caused by a virus. Top Stories - Google News
All my brothers, sisters and cousins contracted and survived measles, either rubella or rubeola. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Such illnesses as flu, measles, scarlatina and type A hepatitis are most likely to strike during the period.
The number of measles cases is fast rising, and if this continues children could die, and the disease could become the plague it once was.
Measles initiatives have made considerable progress in decreasing disease and death caused by measles since its inception in 2001. Global Immunization: Vaccine Coverage is Variable
No case of measles shall be discharged from observation until the Department has been notified, the case examined by an inspector to see if desquamation is entirely completed, and the premises ordered fumigated. The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies
Is the measles virus reactive to ultra violet light?
In Africa, private philanthropy is buying vaccines for measles and hepatitis.
Coupled with recent outbreaks of measles and mumps and ongoing challenges to control pertussis, this outbreak is concerning because it suggests that in some areas, where not enough people are being immunized, the diseases are threatening a comeback. Haemophilus Influenzae Type b (Hib)
Medical teams also warned of alarming rises in measles and other diseases in the survivors' crowded temporary camps. The Sun
Billy didn't go into things all over, so; but whether it's measles or mud pies, I always know that she'll be the measliest or the muddiest of any child in town! Miss Billy — Married
THE MMR jab is a triple vaccine protecting against measles, mumps and rubella.
The mumps vaccine is contained in a combination vaccine called MMR (measles, mumps and rubella, which is also known as German measles). MMR: Measles, Mumps and Rubella Vaccine
Parents are being urged to make sure their children receive their MMR vaccine after a steep rise in the number of confirmed cases of measles in parts of Essex.
The immunization level for specific diseases such as polio and measles now surpasses 90 percent.
In around one in a thousand cases, measles can cause a serious brain condition which can lead to brain damage and deafness.
Because of vaccine shortages, such diseases as whooping cough, measles, mumps, and even polio (which had been all but eradicated) have also increased.
He gave single-shot measles, mumps and rubella vaccines instead of the triple MMR jab after it was controversially linked to autism, although the vast majority of experts in the field reject the claim.
I applied this new concept to measles and certain spirochaete infections, and Georges Blanc has just discovered the existence of inapparent dengue in man, as well as in the monkey and the guinea pig. Charles Nicolle - Nobel Lecture
Once somebody gets cholera or measles or any kind of communicable disease. CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2009
Children survived as a result of a combined effect of sulfa drugs, vaccinations for whooping cough and measles, antibiotics, and corticosteroids.
Rubella is just another name for German measles.
I dread the warm season on account of its summer-complaints; and the cold for its croups, scarlet fevers, measles, and whooping cough. Hubert's Wife A Story for You
And where did German measles go? Times, Sunday Times
In my part of London, we have live smallpox measles and TB scares on a regular basis, because so many parents have been convinced that inoculation is bad for kids that they won't get them their jabs. Boing Boing
Fever is sometimes absent in German measles; usually it ranges about 100° F., rarely over 102° F. The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)
It gives protection against measles, mumps and German measles. The Sun
Vaccinations are free and compulsory for tuberculosis, diphtheria, polio, yellow fever, and measles, mumps, and rubella.
The combined MMR vaccine is the most effective and safe way of protecting your child against measles, mumps and rubella.
Almost all children need to be inoculated to prevent measles, mumps and rubella regaining a grip.
Human history has been subjected to and shaped by major epidemics, such as bubonic plague, cholera, tuberculosis, smallpox, measles and influenza. The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Presentation Speech
Available epidemiological data are consistent with a directly protective effect of vaccine against SSPE mediated by preventing measles.
There is an indication that when she was young her growth was arrested because of a childhood disease such as measles.
Immunity to rubella does not protect a person from measles, or vice versa.
I was wondering why my Son got it!!! kaka immunized lang nya against measles ... the day after i noticed why my son having spot reddish on his forehead, then spreads downward on his face, neck and body then down to his arms and feet. WN.com - Articles related to India gets own vaccine against swine flu
In most countries, rubella vaccine is administered in combination with measles and mumps vaccine to children as part of their immunisation schedule.

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