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MEEZLZ/ˈmiːzlz/

Measles is a highly infectious disease that causes a red rash (usually uncountable): measles catch-up; measles cases. Rash is a symptom; vaccine is prevention. Map catch-up, not a cold. Mix-up: muscles (body); measly means tiny and mean (informal). Do not write “a measles” or treat it as a mild cold.

Meaning

A highly infectious disease that causes a red rash (usually uncountable).

Examples

• “The public-health brief maps measles catch-up, not a cold.”
• “Measles is uncountable in the write-up: cases of measles, not “two measles”.”

Good to know

measles; measles vaccine / cases. Usually uncountable. Trap: measly / muscles. Health and geography. A named infection, not “a bit measly”.

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