Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1912 — “Catching” Measles. [ARTICLE]

“Catching” Measles.

Paul D. Brooks, Norwich, Conn., states that the microorganism that causes meagles has not yet been discovered, but one may assume that it lives for a very short time outside of the body. Measles is about always communicated by the presence of an Infected person and rarely through clothing, a third person, or house infection. It is infectious from the be> ginning of the catarrhal stage. At present satisfactory , results are not obtained in its control by distofeotion. One should not neglect the catarrhal stage but must isolate cases as ’ soon as the first catarrhal symptoms appear.—Medical Record.