It is highly contagious disease which is potential and life threatening. This disease can bring in more complications like pneumonia and encephalitis. If pregnant women are affected with measles, they have the chance of miscarriage. However by taking proper vaccination you can easily protect measles infection caused by virus. Medically measles is called “Rubeola”.
Causes :
Measles is caused by virus by name aparamyxo virus. It spreads easily by saliva or droplets of saliva through air and enters the other person. Mere sneezing and coughing is enough to get the contagious virus.
It is very much necessary to get vaccination for mumps and measles for your child. It can also spread through small droplets from the mouth, nose and even throat of the person who has been infected.
The infected person remains in high contagious stage once the virus enters his body, but it takes minimum of 4 days for the skin rash to appear. You need to know that measles virus can stay active in the air even after the person who is infected leaves the room. Thus it is very dangerous and highly contagious, spreading through air.
Symptoms :