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Let's get real. Let's get loud. On America on Loud Talk Radio. This is the McCullough Report.

And I'm Dr. Peter McCullough, your host. Our topic today is measles mania. Has the country and the world gone crazy over an ancient

disease? Why do we hear so much about measles in the media? And why is this being stoked in

terms of a fear-driven campaign for more measles vaccination. Boy, I tell you what,

it's one infectious disease after another since the pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 infection. Monkeypox,

avian influenza or bird flu, and now we're back to measles. I think America is fatigued over one story

after another about an infectious disease threat that could, you know, hurt their loved ones,

their family members, their children. It just keeps going and going. Well, measles is a virus. It's a single-stranded RNA virus,

just like the SARS-Co2 or COVID-19 virus. It belongs to the paramexovirus family, and the genus is

morbillivirus. It's also known as Rubiola. It's closely related, by the way, to the canine distemper virus and the Rinderpost virus.

It's highly contagious.

It does spread through respiratory droplets.

It also spread when someone coughs or sneezes or talks.

It also can be spread by direct contact because we know the rash itself if you come in contact with it.

It characteristically has a rash that starts on the head area.

There's reddened conjunctive our eyes.

So there's a conjunctiveitis, a rash that starts in the head and spreads downward.

Importantly, if you look in the mouth of children, there's little white spots called

coplic spots, and these are important to identify.

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