Has the Measles virus changed or mutated during its recent time within the population of infected...
- Has the Measles virus changed or mutated during its recent time within the population of infected patients?
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Measles is one of the most contagious infection, which is caused by paramyxovirus.
It is one of the communicable disease is transmitted from one person to another person through droplet infection like through coughing and sneezing by infected person or by direct contact with infected person.
Measles virus is a single standared negative sense , envelopes RNA virus, which is from the family of paramyxoviridae.
In patients Measles virus that much changed or mutated, while comparing to the influenza virus and hiv virus.
Some of the researchers said that influenza virus is constantly mutating or changing but not measles virus that much.
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