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Measles

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Viral Infections of Humans

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In 1948, Kenneth Maxcy(69) wrote in a chapter on epidemiology, “The simplest of all infectious diseases is measles. ” That was before the virus had been isolated or any serological test had become available. Several complicating situations have been found in the intervening years, but they are rare, and Maxcy’s statement is true now, more than 30 years later, as it was then. This relative simplicity makes measles an ideal model for the study of infectious-disease epidemiology. Babbott and Gordon(5) reviewed our knowledge of measles epidemiology as of 1954. Much has been clarified since.

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