How to Use measles in a Sentence

measles

noun
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  • Like the virus that causes Covid-19, the measles virus spreads through the air.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 15 Apr. 2022
  • That led to a steep rise in measles cases around the globe.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Samuel Katz was on a team that gave us the measles vaccine.
    — William McDonald, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • There have been similar upticks in measles rates around the world.
    — USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2024
  • In the West, the measles vaccine was introduced in 1963.
    — Michael Specter, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2020
  • And the omicron variant spreads as quickly as any virus since the measles.
    — Fox News, 21 Dec. 2021
  • But that funding lapsed under Nixon in the 1970s, and measles also resurged.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2022
  • In the classrooms with UV lamps installed, fewer kids came down with the measles.
    — Megan Molteni, Wired, 13 May 2021
  • This type of spinal meningitis can also come from the same viruses that cause the measles and the flu, per the CDC.
    — Sarah Lemire, Health.com, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Contrast that with measles, a virus that has barely evolved over decades.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 28 July 2022
  • It’s about a measles plague that leaves behind a kind of Adam and Eve of people to start over the human species.
    — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2021
  • The measles, for example, used to be endemic in the U.S.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2021
  • The case in Virginia is the latest potential measles outbreak in the last month.
    — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 15 Jan. 2024
  • For about three weeks in 2000, there were zero measles cases in the United States.
    — NPR, 2 Sep. 2024
  • The uptick comes five years after the measles cases reached the highest level in over two decades.
    — Juliana Kim, NPR, 12 Apr. 2024
  • To learn more about measles resources and vaccines in Wayne County, go to www.waynecounty.com/measles.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The ones who have figured out to protect us against measles, polio, mumps.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Most of the measles cases were reported in Africa and the East Mediterranean region.
    — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2022
  • That would make the vaccine more akin to vaccines against measles than flu vaccines.
    — Maggie Fox, CNN, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Hundreds of Afghan children have died of measles in recent years.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2021
  • At the end of 1977, a measles outbreak ripped through the Yanomami population, killing scores.
    — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Over the last decade, the year that saw the highest number of measles cases nationally was 2019.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • Of these, the most common are measles, mumps, rubella, polio, flu, smallpox and tetanus.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2021
  • In 2000, measles had been declared eliminated in the U.S.
    — Kris Maher, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The measles rash usually appears two to three days after the fever begins.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The idea is to move from crisis mode to control mode, approaching the virus in much the same way countries deal with flu or measles.
    — Fox News, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Last year, Samoa saw scores of cases of measles, a fast-spreading virus preventable with a vaccine.
    — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Arizona was not among the places where there were reported measles cases in 2023.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The risk of measles transmission may be increasing in other parts of the country, too.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The result was a measles outbreak that infected thousands and killed 83, mainly children.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2025

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