Why Is The Measles Virus So Contagious?

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SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscription. You might be surprised to hear that measles is 10 times more contagious than Ebola or the plague. How do epidemiologists quantify a disease's catchiness? Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bill & Katie Scholl, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Sources: https://web.stanford.edu/~jhj1/teachingdocs/Jones-on-R0.pdf https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/1/17-1901_article https://blogs.plos.org/publichealth/2014/10/29/scariest-disease-depends-define-scary/ http://www.ghsi.ca/documents/Lipsitch_et_al_Submitted%2020050916.pdf https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/45490/KDPlagueThesis.pdf?sequence=9 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-unforgiving-math-that-stops-epidemics/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5294980/ http://time.com/3693618/measles-contagious/ https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/transmission.html https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/diseases/child/measles.html https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/966220-overview https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/faqs.html https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/01/what-does-measles-actually-do https://cmr.asm.org/content/cmr/29/3/449.full.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4850371/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4482312/ https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/index.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4169395/ https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/10/15-0912_article https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-maps-how-flu-virus-moves-around-plane-180968541/ https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/spread.htm https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e5d7/b306a994b40a85f845c7849d49b8321bebc5.pdf https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180808134344.htm http://www.nfid.org/idinfo/rotavirus/faqs.html http://www.nhsborders.scot.nhs.uk/media/197851/Rotavirus-June-2014.pdf https://books.google.com/books?id=nM_X1PTccloC&pg=PA102&lpg=PA102&dq=chickenpox+%22r0%22&source=bl&ots=dDCneyvKda&sig=ACfU3U2ypHtqjhe1VQ5r7vTlyxrFf9yuww&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwif4aOp0KjgAhWZ14MKHSJUCsEQ6AEwD3oECFUQAQ#v=onepage&q=chickenpox%20%22r0%22&f=false https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2722564/ http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/diseases/varicella/chknpxfacts.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1802755/ http://www.malaria.com/questions/malaria-contagious-spread https://web.stanford.edu/~jhj1/teachingdocs/Jones-on-R0.pdf Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medic_in_the_Fight_Against_Ebola_in_Sierra_Leone_MOD_45158315.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ebola_Virus_TEM_PHIL_1832_lores.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Measles_virus.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bordetella_pertussis_on_Charcoal_Agar_supplemented_with_Cephalexin_-_Detail.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rotavirus_Reconstruction.jpg
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