How to Use measles in a Sentence

measles

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  • Like the virus that causes Covid-19, the measles virus spreads through the air.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 15 Apr. 2022
  • That led to a steep rise in measles cases around the globe.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Samuel Katz was on a team that gave us the measles vaccine.
    — William McDonald, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • There have been similar upticks in measles rates around the world.
    — USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2024
  • But that funding lapsed under Nixon in the 1970s, and measles also resurged.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Contrast that with measles, a virus that has barely evolved over decades.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 28 July 2022
  • The case in Virginia is the latest potential measles outbreak in the last month.
    — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Most of the measles cases were reported in Africa and the East Mediterranean region.
    — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2022
  • At the end of 1977, a measles outbreak ripped through the Yanomami population, killing scores.
    — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Over the last decade, the year that saw the highest number of measles cases nationally was 2019.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • In 2000, measles had been declared eliminated in the U.S.
    — Kris Maher, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The measles rash usually appears two to three days after the fever begins.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2022
  • In fact, in 2019, the county struggled with an explosive measles outbreak due to the same problem.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The measles outbreak in Ohio continues to swell, striking a total of 63 children to date.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Roughly a day after the fever sets in come the three C’s of measles: cough, conjunctivitis (pink eye) and coryza (a runny nose).
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Most people will have no symptoms from measles infection for one to two weeks, Scaggs Huang said.
    — The Enquirer, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Then there was a measles outbreak in southern Washington.
    — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2022
  • By that September, the island nation was in the grip of a measles outbreak that eventually took the lives of more than 80 people.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
  • Many of the children were also sick with illnesses like measles, and were being fed through nasal tubes and needed oxygen to breathe.
    — Abdi Latif Dahir, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2022
  • Covid will now be downgraded to Level 2, putting it on par with chickenpox or measles.
    — Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Though no other measles cases have been linked to the event so far, the public health response is likely to stretch on for several more weeks, at least.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Many of the children were also sick with illnesses like measles and were being fed through nasal tubes and needed oxygen to breathe.
    — New York Times, 11 June 2022
  • In Afghanistan, where only 50 to 60 percent of children are fully immunized, measles cases are on the rise.
    — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Monkeypox is nowhere near as contagious as the coronavirus and measles, which can hang in stagnant air in a room for more than an hour.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022
  • By comparison, shots that protect against diseases like measles and mumps have been around for decades.
    — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2022
  • In the Ohio measles outbreak, only three of the 81 children had received a single dose of vaccine, according to state data.
    — Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Petrovska had measles and pneumonia as a young refugee.
    — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2022
  • There’s a measles outbreak in Florida, and the best way to reduce the spread is by vaccination, public health experts say.
    — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2024
  • To Olivia portrays the idyllic lives of Dahl and Neal tragically turned upside down after their young daughter, Olivia, contracted the measles virus and died in the 1960s.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the risk of polio and measles rises as more people gather and flee the area while medical supplies dwindle.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 15 Mar. 2022

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