Symptoms of Measles
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Measles symptoms occur in people infected with the Rubeola virus. Measles symptoms include conjunctivitis. Many people develop muscle aches and generalized fatigue.

Sometimes people develop coryza (inflammation of the mucous membrane lining the nose often associated with nasal discharge). Other measles symptoms include koplik’s spots (small spots inside the mouth that look like a small grains of white sand, each surrounded by a red ring that are often found on the inside of the cheek opposite the 1st and 2nd upper molars).


The characteristic measles rash is described as an erythematous macular papular rash that often will start along the hairline then spread to the face, neck, thorax, arms, and legs. It generally takes about 8 to 12 days for someone to develop measles symptoms.


Prior to the measles vaccine there were up to 3 to 4 million cases of measles per year in the United States. During the 1950s there were about 500,000 cases of measles and nearly 500 deaths due to measles per year in the United States. Currently there is somewhere between 1000-2000 cases of measles for United States per year.

 
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Symptoms of Measles often do not lead directly to the underlying diagnosis and many symptoms can be misleading. Please review all concerns and information found on this website with your health care provider.