HLTB21H3 Chapter : Measles (Chart-form with labels as indicated in the review)
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Direct contact from nose and throat. Indirect contact through freshly soiled articles and airborne transmission. Incubation period 7 to 14 days. Period of communicability is 4 days before and 4 days after the rash appears. Virus can survive in micro-droplets in the air. Virus still affects 50 m people annually and causes more than 1m deaths. Mortality is highest among very young and very old people. Fever and the 3 c"s (coryza (head cold), cough, and conjunctivitis (red eyes)) Inflammation of the eye"s outer membrane (2) enanthem stage: Peter panum (1820-1885) was sent by the danish government to investigate an epidemic in faeroe. Isles in 1846 he conducted the first epidemiological study. Rhazes (900 ad) clinically separated smallpox and measles. He believed that both proceeded from the same cause. I t was believed that the red rash manifested through measles was a representation of the mother"s menstrual blood. (later rejected)
