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This Podcast Will Kill You

Ep 21 Measles: The Worst Souvenir

This Podcast Will Kill You

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

Health & Fitness, Science

4.817.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

You’ve seen the recent headlines and heard the news reports, but they’re only part of this deadly virus’s story. This week we’re covering the rest. We take you on a one-of-a-kind tour of measles, exploring how this vaccine-preventable virus can wriggle its way into your cells and cause short-term misery and long-term damage. Then we trace the history of this notorious killer from its bovine beginnings to the devastation it wreaked on unexposed populations. The tour ends with a look at measles by the numbers around the world today. If you take home one souvenir from this tour, let it be gratitude for vaccines! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:03.6

It begins with a rigor, followed by heats and chills during the first day.

0:11.9

On the second day there's fever, with intense malaise, thirst, loss of appetite, white

0:17.5

tongue, not actually dry, slight cough, heaviness of the head and eyes, and constant drowsiness.

0:25.4

In most cases a humor distills from the nose and eyes, the effusion or suffusion of tears

0:31.4

being the most certain sign of sickening for measles, more certain indeed than the exam

0:36.9

them.

0:38.3

The child sneezes as if it is taking cold, the eyelids swell, there may be vomiting, more

0:43.8

usually there are loose green stools, and there is excessive fretfulness.

0:49.5

On the fourth or fifth day, small red maculae, like flea bites, begin to appear on the forehead

0:55.4

and the rest of the face, which coalesce as they continue to come out in increasing numbers

1:01.0

so as to form rassamose clusters.

1:04.1

These maculae will be found by the touch to be slightly elevated, although they seem

1:08.7

level to the eye, on the trunk and limbs to which they gradually extend they are not

1:13.4

elevated.

1:15.0

About the sixth day, the maculae begin to roughen and scale from the face downwards, and by

1:20.7

the eighth day are scarcely discernible anywhere.

1:23.8

On the ninth day, the whole body is as if dusted with bran.

1:28.2

The common people say that the spots had, quote, turned inwards, by which they mean that

1:33.5

if it had been smallpox, they would have remained out longer and have proceeded to separation

1:38.9

or maturation.

1:40.6

The rass having thus gone in, there is an access of fever, attenuated with labored breathing

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