What is the History of Measles?

Abstract

In this presentation, I explore the History of Measles through an analysis of data conducted through a literature review. Measles is a highly contagious disease humans have ever faced. An ancient disease, the early history of measles is difficult to document, but history records that it has been around for some 5000 years in the old world. It is a common childhood disease characterized by fever and reddish rash over the body; measles may have evolved from the distemper of dogs or bovine rinderpest of cattle several thousand years ago when humans first began to domesticate their animals.