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  • The Antonine Plague, 165-180 AD, also known as the Plague of Galen, who described it, was probably smallpox or measles.
  • Disease killed as much as one-third of the population in some areas, and decimated the Roman army.
  • The first scientific description of measles and its distinction from smallpox and chickenpox is credited to the Persian physician, Muhammad ibn Zakariya ar-Razi (860-932), known to the West as "Rhazes", who published a book entitled The Book of Smallpox and Measles (in Arabic: Kitab fi al-jadari wa-al-hasbah).
  • Measles is an endemic disease, meaning that it has been continually present in a community, and many people develop resistance.
  • In populations that have not been exposed to measles, exposure to a new disease can be devastating.
  • In 1529, a measles outbreak in Cuba killed two-thirds of the natives who had previously survived smallpox.
  • Two years later measles was responsible for the deaths of half the population of Honduras, and had ravaged Mexico, Central America, and the Inca civilization.
  • In roughly the last 150 years, measles has been estimated to have killed about 200 million people worldwide.[34] During the 1850s, measles killed a fifth of Hawaii's people.
  • In 1875, measles killed over 40,000 Fijians, approximately one-third of the population.
  • In the 19th century, the disease decimated the Andamanese population.
  • In 1954, the virus causing the disease was isolated from an 11-year old boy from the United States, David Edmonston, and adapted and propagated on chick embryo tissue culture.
  • To date, 21 strains of the measles virus have been identified.
  • While at Merck, Maurice Hilleman developed the first successful vaccine.
  • Licensed vaccines to prevent the disease became available in 1963
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