Mandy Moore

Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.

American Musician

Rose George

You've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those three things put together. It's a very potent weapon of mass destruction.

British Journalist

Bill Gates

Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.

American Businessman

Theresa Tam

Misinformation or distrust of vaccines can be like a contagion that can spread as fast as measles.

Canadian Public Servant

Rainer Maria Rilke

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

German Poet

Lord Byron

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

British Poet

Douglas William Jerrold

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

English Dramatist

John Niven

Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.

Scottish Author

Jerome K. Jerome

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

English Author

P. G. Wodehouse

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

English Writer

Measles is often associated with childhood as it's a common time to contract it.

Childhood Illness

Emphasize that measles causes red spots, different from regular pimples or a rash.

Spotty Skin

Highlight that a vaccine can prevent measles, a key point in public health discussions.

Vaccine Preventable

Measles on crops can indicate agricultural diseases, impacting food quality and safety.

Agricultural Concern

Fruits with measles are not just aesthetically affected but often can't be eaten.

Not Edible

Measles on plants may be a result of insect damage, not just diseases.

Insect Damage

 That's what measles is. That's what yellow fever is. These are weakened viruses. They don't give you disease, but because they look like the natural viruses, your body gets protection and, frankly, you get protection for your whole life. Today, because people are worried about side effects, we've begun to use molecular biology and use little bits of it,

The quest for the...

 horrible diseases. And that's happening. We have measles in this country now. And it's getting worse, and pretty soon kids are going to die of it again because it's just a numbers game. And they're not just going to die of measles. What about polio? Let's have that. Why not? A college classmate of mine wrote me a couple weeks ago and said

The danger of science...

 humans so if you know much about measles you know that once it starts to spread it spreads really quickly this virus has killed seals in other parts of the world on the order of tens of thousands of animals if you think about that relative to the number of monk seals that are in existence we really don't think that the

The Strange—but...

 is one of the only countries in the world where the vaccine rate for measles is going down that is disgraceful and we should be ashamed of ourselves it's horrible and what kind of what kind of a thing happened that we could do that now I understand it I do understand it because anyone have measles here does

 but that can be ended now. The challenge we have now is to get away from that, understand where the majority is, and that is very clearly shown in this question. We asked, what is the percentage of the world's one-year-old children who have got those basic vaccines against measles and other things

How not to be ignorant...

 they are there and they are free -- and it's not because parents do not care about their kids. The same child that is not immunized against measles, if they do get measles, parents will spend thousands of rupees to help them. So you get these empty village subcenters and crowded hospitals.

Esther Duflo: Social...

 One of the tragic things about this outbreak is that measles, which can be fatal to a child with a weakened immune system, is one of the most easily preventable diseases in the world. An effective vaccine against it has been available for more than half a century,

Steve Silberman: The...

 So in a modern society, we know that prevention is better than cure. We vaccinate against polio, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, measles. We have awareness campaigns for melanoma, stroke, diabetes -- all important campaigns.

3 ways to build a happy...

 and they do every day. Diarrhea is the second biggest killer of children worldwide, and you've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children

Rose George: Let's talk...

 that I lived there there was a outbreak of measles the child was dying nearly every day I mean just imagine the grief and the fear that your child might xed but also the helplessness no one knew

Measles

Childhood Illness

Spotty Skin

Vaccine Preventable

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