Photos of Measles and People with Measles

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Young child with moderate illness: runny nose, teary eyes caused by measles infection.
Source: "Measles Clinical Features" video

Face of boy after three days with measles rash.
Source: CDC/PHIL

Skin sloughing off of a child healing from measles infection.
Source: CDC/PHIL

Young boy five to six days into illness with rash and cough.
Source: "Measles Clinical Features" video

Skin of a patient after three days with measles rash.
Source: CDC/PHIL

Face of child with measles.
Source: CDC/PHIL

Young, dark-skinned child with watery eyes, runny nose, and raised rash.
Source: "Measles Clinical Features" video

Child with a classic measles rash after four days.
Source: CDC/PHIL

Eyes of a child with measles
Source: CDC/PHIL

This was a patient who presented with Koplik’s spots on palate due to pre-eruptive measles on day three of the illness.
Source: CDC/PHIL

This patient presented on the third pre-eruptive day with “Koplik spots” indicative of the beginning onset of measles.
Source: CDC/PHIL

3D graphical representation of a spherical-shaped, measles virus particle that is studded with glycoprotein tubercles.
Source: CDC/PHIL

The measles virus is a paramyxovirus, of the genus Morbillivirus. Thin-section transmission electron micrograph (TEM).
Source: CDC/PHIL

Histopathology of measles pneumonia, (Giant cell with intracytoplasmic inclusions.)
Source: CDC/PHIL

Page last reviewed: November 5, 2020