A highly contagious infectious disease caused by MORBILLIVIRUS, common among children but also seen in the nonimmune of any age, in which the virus enters the respiratory tract via droplet nuclei and multiplies in the epithelial cells, spreading throughout the MONONUCLEAR PHAGOCYTE SYSTEM.
    

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People stand under a freestanding green umbrella which protects them from the rain; representing the protection conferred by the Infectious Diseases Prevention and Cure Law (Revised) in China in 2004. Colour lithograph, 2004.

Un sarampión benigno : con suero humano normal : Anti-Sarampión P.B. liofilizado / Plasma y Biologicos, S. de R.L.

Immunizations covered by Ministry of Health in Kenya: measles, tetanus in infants and polio. Colour lithograph by KEPI, Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.

Counsel's opinion... / Henry Lamplough Ltd.

Cullen's Lectures on the Practice of Medicine

The global eradication of smallpox / edited by Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Sharon Messenger.

De variolis et morbillis fragmenta medicorum Arabistarum Constantini Africani, Matthaei Silvatici, Bernardi Gordonii, Joannis Anglici de Gaddesden, Gentilis de Fulgineo, Michaelis Scoti, Rolandi Parmensis, Guidonis de Cauliaco, Guilielmi Varignanae, Valesci de Taranta, Joannis de Concoregio, Petri Hispani, Antonii de Gradis, Menghi Faventini, Blasii Astarii et Joannis Saliceti / Iunctim edidit notulis et glossario instruxit D. Christian. Gothfridus Gruner.

Tractatus de variolis et morbillis ... / [A. Sidobre].

Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.8 Nobel Prize Medicine 1946-1959

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Cullen's Lectures on the Practice of Medicine

The global eradication of smallpox / edited by Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Sharon Messenger.

Tractatus de variolis et morbillis ... / [A. Sidobre].

Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.8 Nobel Prize Medicine 1946-1959