Measles is a childhood disease because the majority of measles cases are children. Even though measles has been eradicated in the US, measles still causes 200,000 deaths every year in the world, and most of the victims are children. Measles is a dangerous disease, especially to unvaccinated people, 90% of unvaccinated people get measles after exposured to it. The infectious people can spread measles for eight days, that is four days before symptoms appear and four days after symptoms appear.
If you have the following symptoms, you should to see doctors such as dry cough, red and rash in your skin all over your body first appear on face then downward to feet, high fever, etc. The infectious people with weakened immune systems or deficiency vitamin A, it can lead to complication such as pneumonia, brain damage. When you are pregnant, if you get measles, you may have premature birth, low birth weight, fetal death. You can get measles even you are vaccinated, but the symptoms often mild.
There are some misinformation on social media about the link between measles vaccine and autism, people shouldn’t believe the misinformation. Measles vaccine was invented in 1960s, it has been used all over the world more than fifty years and saved a lot of lives. Some estimated that one or two of a thousand measles infectious people will die, we don’t count many people will develop complication. There are side effects to all medicines and vaccines. With measles vaccine, it is trivial.