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Measles is a highly contagious disease that can infect the lungs causing fatal pneumonia or the brain causing encephalitis.
Vaccines and Society 2010
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Measles, which is highly contagious, can cause pneumonia, brain inflammation, ear infections, severe diarrhea and death.
Get Your Shots: 2008
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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.
Burning Water Lackey, Mercedes 1989
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"Measles" are embryo tapeworms called, from their appearance,
The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
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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.
A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life Herman Gastrell Seely
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The word was "Measles," and the question, "Who was the grandmother of
What Katy Did at School Susan Coolidge 1870
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