English-Dutch translations for measles

• mazelen
  80 procent van de kinderen is gevaccineerd tegen mazelen en polio. Eighty per cent of children have been vaccinated against measles and polio.
  Maar het noorden was daar niet klaar voor - de officiële verklaring was dat de heer Prabhakaran de mazelen of de waterpokken had. But the north was not ready - officially Mr Prabhakaran had measles or chicken pox.
  Iedere dag sterven duizenden kinderen aan ziekten die kunnen worden behandeld, zoals mazelen, en waarvoor medicijnen beschikbaar zijn. Every day, thousands of children die from diseases that we know how to treat, such as measles, and for which medicinal products exist.
• morbilli

Definition of measles

• Rubeola, an acute highly contagious disease, often of childhood, caused by ''Measles virus'', of genus ''Morbillivirus'', featuring a spreading red skin rash, fever, runny nose, cough and red eyes
• A disease of pigs and cattle, caused by larval tapeworms

Related words

• measle
• antimeasles
• German measles