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  • Measles is a highly contagious disease that can infect the lungs causing fatal pneumonia or the brain causing encephalitis.

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  • Measles, which is highly contagious, can cause pneumonia, brain inflammation, ear infections, severe diarrhea and death.

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  • Measles, which is highly infectious, causes rashes, fevers, coughs, and runny noses and may lead to complications including pneumonia, seizures and death.

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  • "Measles," the boy heard his mouth saying, though he was too worried about his brother to find it strange that another spirit should use his mouth.

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  • "Measles" are embryo tapeworms called, from their appearance,

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  • "Measles" was a name for several diseases of swine or sheep.

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  • Other immunizations have dramatically reduced once widespread diseases such as Measles,

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  • "Measles" carries the weight of this infamous crime, a troubled young woman who fell in with the wrong crowd and paid for it with her life.

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  • He'll say 'Measles' and order you 'home until the case develops,'"quoting the physician's words at his own dismissal.

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  • The word was "Measles," and the question, "Who was the grandmother of

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