1. Measles
By: Taylor Swyers

2. The Disease
Measles is a highly contagious respiratory infection caused by a virus. It creates a rash all over your body and gives you a fever, cough, and runny nose.

3. What layers of skin does measles affect?
Epidermis
Dermis (if it more serious)

4. Signs of the Disease
10-14 days after you are infected, the symptoms start to show.
Fever
Dry cough
Runny nose
Sore throat
Inflamed eyes
Tiny white spots with bluish-white centers on a red background found inside the mouth on the inner lining of the cheek
A skin rash made up of large, flat blotches that often flow into one another

5. Cause of the disease
The cause of measles is a virus that starts in your nose and throat.
When someone who is infected with measles coughs, sneezed, or talks, infected droplets are released in the air

6. Treatment
Once you are infected, there is no prescription medicine to treat measles.
You should get the MMR vaccine to prevent getting measles.
If you have it, here are some things to relieve your symptoms:
Rest
Fluids
Vitamin A

7. Worst Case Scenario
As many as one out of every 20 children with measles gets pneumonia, the most common cause of death from measles in young children.
About one child out of every 1,000 who get measles will develop encephalitis (swelling of the brain) that can lead to convulsions and can leave the child deaf or with intellectual disability
For every 1,000 children who get measles, one or two will die from it

8. Fun Facts
Measles cases reached a record high in 2014, and after a 2015 outbreak at Disneyland the numbers keep growing
Pregnant women who have measles have a tendency to have a premature birth or a very light weight baby
The disease could be prevented world wide if people would vaccinate their children

9. Sources
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