Measles is a childhood infection caused by a virus. Once quite common, measles can now almost always be prevented with a vaccine (MMR vaccines)

Also called rubeola, measles can be serious and even fatal for small children. 

Symptoms

• Fever
• Dry cough
• Runny nose
• Sore throat
• Inflamed eyes
• Tiny white spots with bluish-white
• skin rash made up of large, flat blotches that often flow into one another

Medications

• Fever reducers. 
• Antibiotics. 
• Vitamin A.