April 4th, 2010 by Stand Team

• Characteristics:
It is a disease illness caused by the measles virus. Occurs most often in children and mainly affects children under one year. The disease is characterized by fever, headache, decay, symptoms all common to all the viral diseases; the second or third day the rash appears in this case begins in the face and spreads to the trunk and then to the limbs. The spots are reddish, the size of a grain of rice.

It is characterized by be enantema, since it also affects the mucous: in the inside of the mouth appear some small white spots that are called spots of Koplick. Another feature is the triple cold: there are runny nose, eye irritation and laryngitis. It is a mild illness and has a mortality rate of 1/1000. Before the vaccine virus raged in the form biennial. Every two years the number of cases increased. With the vaccine this cycle is lengthened to every four or five years. When increases the number of cases, the mortality rises to one every 500, and even goes one in 100. This disease is more delicate in children under one year and among the people in which may have respiratory complications or neurological problems.

• How develops:
The incubation period is also in two weeks. The contagion is produced two days before the spots on the skin and up to four or five days after the outbreak. After 7 days the rash clarifies and there is no sequel.

• Treatment:
Is to control the fever without neglecting the bacterial complications requiring an antibiotic.