Essays on Measles

This assignment will focus on Measles and Meningococcal Meningitis, both are communicable diseases. “A communicable disease is an illness that is transmitted from a person, animal, or inanimate source to another person either directly, with the assistance of an intermediate host or by a vector”....

An infectious disease that is caused by a very contagious virus. It is prevalent worldwide however, due to the presence of vaccine as part of MMR, the prevalence has dropped significantly compared to a century earlier. Though, a recent rise in incidence it attributed to...

The earliest known case of measles dated back to the AD’s and vaccinations for the contagious airborne virus had been present since the 1963 according to the World Health Organization. Fifty-six years had passed since vaccination for measles was discovered and there are still multiple...

Measles is an extremely contagious disease, caused by a paramyxovirus virus. In New Zealand, the first measles vaccine was introduced in 1969. In 1990, it was replaced by the MMR vaccine, combining measles, mumps and rubella vaccines. After being exposed to measles, it take about...

Measles, also call rubeola, is a highly contagious and deadly acute viral infection. It is classified as a member of the genus Morbillivirus in the Paramyxoviridae family and is closely related to the rinderpest and canine distemper viruses. Measles was originally described by a Persian...

An outbreak of plague occurred in Athens during the second year of the Peloponnesian War in 430 BC, which was one of many battles fought amid many years between the Sparta and Athens. The origin of this outbreak initiated in Ethiopia and had passed through...