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measles

/mee-zuhlz/US // ˈmi zəlz //UK // (ˈmiːzəlz) //

麻疹,疹子,疹,霍乱

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Pathology. an acute infectious disease occurring mostly in children, characterized by catarrhal and febrile symptoms and an eruption of small red spots; rubeola.any of certain other eruptive diseases.Compare German measles.
    • : Veterinary Pathology. a disease in swine and other animals caused by the larvae of certain tapeworms of the genus Taenia.
    • : the larvae that cause measles in swine and other animals, and that upon maturation produce trichinosis in humans.

Examples

  • Ferrari has been analyzing how these disruptions will affect measles outbreaks around the world over the next couple of years.

  • From 2000 to 2016, reported measles cases worldwide plunged from 853,479 to 132,490.

  • The pandemic is interrupting measles vaccine programs around the world.

  • In 2019, even before covid-19, vaccine misinformation thrived on the platform as measles outbreaks spread across the US.

  • I want to make a vaccine that’s going to be so powerful it is going to be like the measles vaccine, which gives you long-term immunity and a very powerful protection level, you know, 90% to 95%.

  • A powdered form of the measles vaccine could make delivery safer and easier around the world.

  • The current FDA-approved measles vaccine consists of live but weakened measles virus that is injected into the arm.

  • So the new inhaled powder measles vaccine may in a few years turn out to be an easier way to protect kids from measles.

  • From 1962-1965, there was a worldwide epidemic of rubella, the so-called “German measles.”

  • Meanwhile, the last outbreak of measles in Mississippi was reported in 1992, according to the state department of health.

  • Scarlet fever is frequently accompanied by eosinophilia, which may help to distinguish it from measles.

  • On their perilous journey an attack of measles increased their discomforts.

  • First love is merely the more picturesque successor of measles and whooping-cough.

  • Insist upon keeping a scarlet fever or measles patient out of school until all scaling has ceased.

  • Chickenpox is almost a harmless disease, but it is more infectious than even measles.