Recently reported that in United States and Europe patients infected with measles figure has increased significantly, with a recorded of 6,500 cases, with the U.S leading 98 more cases. World Health Organization urged people traveling to Europe should be preceded by the earlier vaccination; parents should take their children two doses of triple vaccine (MMR Vaccine), to avoid being infected. Hong Kong pediatrician points out parents can start to get their one year old baby vaccinated against measles to prevent measles infection.

Measles (Measles) is a viral disease via airborne droplets or direct contact with nose or throat secretions of infected persons. Patients with early symptoms of infection include fatigue, fever, cough, conjunctivitis and white spots on the mouth. A few days later the red-brown spots on the skin rash appears, usually spread through the body from the face, maintaining about a week, and may also be up to 3 weeks. Measles can cause complications such as otitis media, pneumonia, bronchitis and encephalitis, can be deadly serious.

Things to be aware of before measles vaccination:

1. Children under 1 year old, because their body is still left behind their mother's placenta antibodies can interfere with foreign media to make the vaccine less functional derivative, so unfit to be in this age to take MMR vaccination
2. Children suffering from cancer, without treatment or disease affecting the immune system, being restricted immune therapies (such as organ transplant, leukemia or other cancers), or take high doses of steroids weight children.
3. Allergic to neomycin or kanamycin child
4. Have received MMR vaccination and then got serious reactions afterwards.

Reasons for delay measles vaccination:

1. Children who felt unwell with fever, caused by the acute symptoms of fever, and had received other active immunization (3 weeks), who have received immunoglobulin injection (3 months).
2. Children who received active vaccine (including BCG included) less than 3 weeks.

3.  Children who has in the past 3 months got immunoglobulin injections