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  • Last year they brought in that case of measles, and that's serious.†  (source)
    measles = a highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash
  • They'd met in a doctor's office, both of them dotted with measles.†  (source)
  • You been mopin' 'round here for the past week like you got the whoopin' cough, flu, and measles all put together.†  (source)
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  • Every rash was either chicken pox or measles.†  (source)
    measles = a highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash
  • The doctor took a look and said it wasn't chicken pox and it wasn't measles.†  (source)
  • My mother kept her little brother alive last year when he caught the measles.†  (source)
  • 'The boy had had a mild case of the measles when he was twelve, reported his mother.†  (source)
  • She drew back her shoulder blades as if preparing for a measles shot—something painful but necessary.†  (source)
  • The camp organizers set up a table inside where they removed our shoes and shirts and inspected our toes for athlete's foot, checked us for measles and chicken pox, then sent us outside to board a yellow school bus for the long journey to upstate New York.†  (source)
  • His father was an amateur jazz pianist, so Russo's ear was tuned from an early age, but it wasn't until he got both the measles and the mumps simultaneously, in third grade, that he discovered classical music.†  (source)
  • All I can think of is the picture in our Catechism of a valentine with measles.†  (source)
  • Measles or mumps?†  (source)
  • These three characteristics — one, contagiousness; two, the fact that little causes can have big effects; and three, that change happens not gradually but at one dramatic moment — are the same three principles that define how measles moves through a grade-school classroom or the flu attacks every winter.†  (source)
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