Let’s learn something from Measles

Measles is a common disease which needs no introduction.

It’s a disease caused by measles virus(MV).

Symptoms Measles signs and symptoms appear around 10 to 14 days after exposure to the virus. Signs and symptoms of measles typically include

  • Fever
  • Dry cough
  • Runny nose
  • Sore throat
  • Inflamed eyes (conjunctivitis)
  • Tiny white spots with bluish-white centers on a red background found inside the mouth on the inner lining of the cheek — also called Koplik’s spots
  • Fever
  • A skin rash made up of large, flat blotches that often flow into one another

The infection occurs in stages over 2 to 3 weeks.

  • Infection and incubation. For the first 10 to 14 days after infection, the measles virus spreads in the body. There are no signs or symptoms of measles during this time.
  • Signs and symptoms. Measles typically begins with a mild to moderate fever, often with a persistent cough, a runny nose, inflamed eyes (conjunctivitis) and a sore throat. This relatively mild illness may last 2 to 3 days.
  • Acute illness and rash. The rash is made up of small red spots, some of which are slightly raised. Spots and bumps in tight clusters give the skin a splotchy red appearance. The face breaks out first.
  • Over the next few days, the rash spreads down the arms, chest and back, then over the thighs, lower legs and feet. At the same time, the fever rises sharply, often too high.
  • The measles rash may last about seven days. The rash gradually fades first from the face and last from the thighs and feet. As other symptoms of the illness go away, the cough and darkening or peeling of the skin where the rash was may stay for about 10 days.

Complications can include

  • Blindness
  • Encephalitis (an infection causing brain swelling and potentially brain damage)
  • Severe diarrhea and related dehydration
  • Ear infections
  • Severe breathing problems including pneumonia
  • Death

Most deaths from measles are from complications related to the disease.

Causes of death in Measles

WHO says

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/measles ) (https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/measles#:~:text=Children%20with%20malnutrition%20or%20other%20causes%20of%20a%20weak%20immune%20system%20are%20at%20highest%20risk%20of%20death%20from%20measles.

Parents concern on measles and their update awareness on health.

FOH is really anxious why a single child after contracting measles, after 14 days of incubation period and following 10-14 days of disease, walks out free and healthy at one side and another die on the other. Its always fine to say that vaccines are really doing good but merely nullifying the virulence of measles virus by not putting deaths in vaccinated cases on record and not announcing those deaths is purely unethical from the side of scientific community (Research are on everywhere and these misleading data are not unnoticed nor can be buried).But be vaccinated or not, why measles virus leave some people uninfected, infect many and kill others? Just like Corona virus is measles virus too a demon only through an ignorant eye ?

The biggest pyramid along with some men from a few meters’ fits in a frame, but these viruses no matter how many in number, comes nowhere near this proportion invades and kills the best-known automated machine of nature Homo Sapien, and believers of ‘Survival of the Fittest’ slogan feels nothing about this? But three responses to a single disease in human body really worth research, in this late hour on a dreadful threshold let the vaccines save the humanity but to know is our right, and duty1.

What’s FOH-2 VERSION

  1. A new era where AI is going to take up the medical guide seat and when whole known information about health being kept as data in servers and are going to be used as basic information for various medical necessities it is going to be the raw material for several studies. Human indulgence in to various closed and technically completed research works are never going to be revised even accidentally due to easy access to data of all experiments and inferences through e-records. Man in the middle of uncertainties in medical science are going to fall in to next dark age. It becomes duty of alternate thinkers to enlighten the society of Real Health.-FOH-2
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(foh-2’s Measles)