How to Use measles in a Sentence

measles

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Arizona was not among the places where there were reported measles cases in 2023.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2024
• In fact, in 2019, the county struggled with an explosive measles outbreak due to the same problem.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2022
• One child with measles is capable of spreading it to as many as 18 others.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2024
• No, officials say there has not been a measles outbreak.
  — Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Sep. 2021
• The measles outbreak in Ohio continues to swell, striking a total of 63 children to date.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2022
• Our schools already require vaccines for measles, mumps and more.
  — NBC News, 1 Oct. 2021
• Oregon's measles outbreak is now the largest in the state in over three decades, mirroring a trend of rising measles cases across the U.S. this year.
  — Isabel Funk, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2024
• Roughly a day after the fever sets in come the three C’s of measles: cough, conjunctivitis (pink eye) and coryza (a runny nose).
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2024
• Most people will have no symptoms from measles infection for one to two weeks, Scaggs Huang said.
  — The Enquirer, 15 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024