What kind of illness is measles?
Measles
Complications of measles are relatively common, ranging from mild ones such as diarrhea to serious ones such as pneumonia (either direct viral pneumonia or secondary bacterial pneumonia), bronchitis (either direct viral bronchitis or secondary bacterial bronchitis), otitis media,[20] acute brain inflammation[21] (and very rarely subacute sclerosing panencephalitis),[22] and corneal ulceration (leading to corneal scarring).[23] In addition, measles can suppress the immune system for weeks to months, and this can contribute to bacterial superinfections like otitis media and bacterial pneumonia.[24][25][26]