Measles

Muhammad S Khan; Saifullah Khan

doi:10.26717/BJSTR.2018.10.001880

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Measles

Volume 10 - Issue 1

**Muhammad S Khan*¹ and Saifullah Khan²**

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- ¹Assistant professor Department of pharmaceutical sciences, Abbottabad University of Science & technology
- ²Assistant professor Department of pharmaceutical sciences, Abbottabad University of Science & technology

Received:September 26, 2018; Published: October 11, 2018

DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2018.10.001880

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Abstract

Measles is one of the highly contagious, serious disease caused by rubeola virus. Before the vaccine for measles it has caused almost 2.3 million deaths each year, mostly children under age of 5 years. Measles is a human disease and there is no evidence that it ever occurred in animals [1]. Measles virus is spread mostly by droplet route like coughing, sneezing, close personal contact with the infected individual.