Difference between Rubeola and Measles

What is the difference between Rubeola and Measles?

Rubeola as a noun is measles while Measles as a noun is rubeola, an acute highly contagious disease, (often of childhood) caused by a virus, featuring a spreading red skin rash, fever, runny nose, cough and red eyes

Rubeola

Part of speech: noun

Definition: measles

Measles

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Rubeola, an acute highly contagious disease, (often of childhood) caused by a virus, featuring a spreading red skin rash, fever, runny nose, cough and red eyesAny of several other similar diseases, such as German measles.Rubeola, an acute highly contagious disease, often of childhood, caused by Measles virus, of genus Morbillivirus, featuring a spreading red skin rash, fever, runny nose, cough and red eyesLeprosy.

Example sentence: If we vaccinate well, if we increase those vaccination rates, we can stop measles just as we stopped it before.

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