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And now on to the show. Welcome to Helix Talk episode 101. I'm your co-host Dr. Kane.

I'm Dr. Patel. And along with us, we have our returning

guest, Dr. Lauren and Angelo. It's great to be here. Thank you. Thank you for joining us.

And today, we are diving into some of the most prominent clinical issues that we have seen

in the vaccine world or infectious disease world. And the title of our episode is

measles, we have a problem. And really today we're talking about measles being an outbreak,

especially this year compared to previous years, talking about what is measles, how is it spread,

why are we seeing the outbreak, and what are we doing about it in terms of health care

providers? So why don't we just start with what is measles? It's something that many people

have probably heard about, but maybe don't even know what it is or what are some symptoms,

or how do you even know if a patient who presented to a clinic or your pharmacy had maybe

measles or not? Well, it is a highly contagious virus, and what we are most concerned about is the way that it is spread, usually through sneezing or coughing by an infected person.

And it does live in the air for up to two hours, so that's a scary thought if we are around someone who has measles.

Yeah, and it's also known as Rubiola, which is not to be confused, but Rubela, which is part of the measles. Yeah, and it's also known as rubiola, which is not to be confused with

rubella, which is part of the measles vaccine, the m mhmr, which is measles, mumps,

and rebella. And this is really, really contagious. So one of the problems with this virus

is that a person who's infected is contagious four days before they really start having some of these symptoms.

And then many patients will have a rash that develops and they're contagious four days after that appearance of the rash.

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