MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT 697 Immunodeficiency among Female Sexual Partners of Males with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) — New York 698 Formaldehyde Exposures in a Gross Anatomy laboratory — Colorado 700 Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Prison Inmates—New York. New Jersey 702 Update: Influenza—United States 707 Classification of Measles Cases and Categorizat...

Measles causes a profound immune suppression which is responsible for the high morbidity and mortality induced by secondary infections. Dendritic cells (DC) are professional antigen-presenting cells required for initiation of primary immune responses. To determine whether infection of DC by measles virus (MV) may play a role in virus-induced suppression of cell-mediated immunity, we examined th...

abstract prevention of infectious diseases by immunization in children has markedly diminished the morbidity and mortality of once common contagious diseases in many countries worldwide. immunization programs have led to the global eradication of smallpox, elimination of measles and poliomyelitis in regions of the world, and substantial reduction in the morbidity and mortality attributed to dip...

INDIAN PEDIATRICS 555 VOLUME 43__JUNE 17, 2006 Measles is rightly called as captain of killer team in India. We used to see measles cases mostly between 1 to 3 years of age group and mumps in school going children. Morbidity due to measles and mumps is very well known. Nowadays there is distinct change in the measles and mumps disease pattern due to measles and MMR vaccination. Both these vacci...

BACKGROUND A possible risk factor for brain tumor might be measles, since late neurologic sequelae are part of measles pathology. Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a devastating neurologic illness, is prone to develop years after measles infection. METHODS Because measles damage to the brain might increase the risk of brain tumor, we examined the relationship of measles incidence in 1960 a...

Despite the safe and effective measles vaccine being available and despite efforts put in by various stakeholders over the past few decades, measles continues to kill 360 children every day worldwide.[1] The idea of controlling and eliminating measles (which was killing over 6800 children annually) was mooted in the 1980s, soon after the eradication of smallpox.[2,3] However, the World Health O...

BACKGROUND Measles is a highly communicable viral illness and is common cause of childhood mortality and morbidity. Keeping in view the high prevalence of measles in the developing world, we carried out this study to look into the complicated measles cases and clinical outcome in patients admitted in children ward of Ayub Teaching Hospital. METHODS Detailed history and physical examination of...

• Vol 10 • August-September 2008 640 Measles is still a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in children in the Middle East. This region has many hard-to-reach populations, causing difficulties in the provision of adequate immunization coverage. There has been concern that measles vaccine may produce transient immunosuppression in malnourished children and thereby increase their risk fo...

Measles, a highly communicable disease, is one of the leading causes of death among young children globally. Despite the availability of safe and effective vaccines, it has been an issue of concern. Approximately, 134,200 people died globally from measles in 2015 of which most of them were children under the age of 5 [1]. Measures to control measles first started in 1980 after the eradication o...

We studied measles incidence and morbidity in Ghazvin district by retrospective review of cases registered at the central health office and admitted to two hospital in Ghazvin city during April 1997-April 2003. There were 824 clinically confirmed cases of measles over the 6-year period giving a mean annual incidence of 18.67 per 100 000 population, higher than for the country generally. There w...