Measles : it isn’t just a little rash

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.). Division of Viral Diseases.
• Description:
  Measles can be dangerous, especially for babies and young children.
  
  Measles Symptoms Typically Include
  
  • High fever (may spike to more than 104° F)
  
  • Cough
  
  • Runny nose
  
  • Red, watery eyes
  
  • Rash breaks out 3-5 days after symptoms begin
  
  Measles Can Be Serious
  
  About 1 out of 4 people who get measles will be hospitalized.
  
  1 out of every 1,000 people with measles will develop brain swelling (encephalitis), which may lead to brain damage.
  
  1 or 2 out of 1,000 people with measles will die, even with the best care.
  
  You Have the Power to Protect Your Child.
  
  Provide your children with safe and long-lasting protection against measles by making sure they get the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine according to CDC’s recommended immunization schedule.
  
  CS254521-A
  
  WWW.CDC.GOV/MEASLES
  
  
• Subjects:
  Child Infant Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine Measles/prevention & Control Vaccination
• Document Type:
  Poster
• Genre:
  Infographic
• Pages in Document:
  1 poster
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:feead53b4a03191dec7882e1a68c5a89e43d59fdc7eea6af339d0214c273c873
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/27681/cdc_27681_DS1.pdf
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