Measles

Measles

The History of the Disease
BY: Austin When It Was Discovered: It has been around the world since 2500 B.C. Early doctors thought it was just a process like losing baby teeth but it is a serous disease that should be taken seriously, it can make you deaf. Who discovered it: A roman named Varro discovered this virus.his idea was that the disease jumped from one person to the next and ifected the host. People didn't believe him, but they were wrong. There many early epidemics which caused a lot of deaths because people though it was that harmless or that they couldn’t do anything to stop it. The Organism Responsible for this Disease : The organism responsible for this disease is called Morbillivirus. There recently have research and founded a vaccination to stop the spread of this disease, saving thousands of lives every year.



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Measles is contagious, so if you haven’t had measles before or you haven’t had your vacations, you are very likely to get affected by someone who has measles at the time. Measles can make you deaf, it affects your brain, and it can kill you. Measles can affect reproduction by giving the child birth defects, such as mental retardation or blindness.

The Treatment for Measles BY: Kristi There is no found cure yet to kill the measles completely. But to insure you don’t get them start with a MMR vaccination. After one shot 95% of people will be immune to the measles and after a second shot 99% of people will be immune. The rest realizes on good nursing, getting fluids and staying well rested. Now day’s children get this vaccination young to protect them from getting it. Also when you have the measles or any other viral dieses don’t take Aspirin as a treatment plan it can cause a rare risk of getting Reye’s syndrome which is a fatal liver and brain dieses. []

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Symptoms and Locations Where Measles are Prevalent: By: Ellie Walder When you first get measles, you don’t start getting symptoms for nine or ten days after getting the virus. For those ten days, before the symptoms, it’s called the incubation period. The early symptoms are a runny nose, tiredness, low fever, and coughing. The eyes will also become red, watery, and sensitive to light. There will also be bright red areas with white specks in the center in your mouth. Two or three days later your fever gets higher and you will start vomiting, having the diarrhea, and having stomach pains. You will also breakout in rash; it starts behind your ears and works its way down. The rash is flat red or brown, blotches and bumps. This is when their most contagious, so one of the best ways to keep it from spreading is to wash your hands. [|How To Wash Your Hands Video] You also should always cough or sneeze into your arm or tissue.[|How To Sneeze Video]People, who are also weakened by it, can get infections in their lungs or in the middle ear. Measles can also cause brain damage, but that is very uncommon.

Measles are most common in third world countries in Africa, because of that they have a higher death rate than the one in 3,000 in the United States. They also don’t have enough money to buy vaccinations for Measles so they are more venerable to getting it.



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