Converse of object

• catch: However, you can catch measles at any age.

• contract: However, Mr Sharp is unsympathetic, blaming the Briggs children for his son contracting German measles.

• get: You can have a vaccination to stop you getting measles.

• have: Dr. Waring said the child had measles which was the main factor in the case.

• develop: For example, unvaccinated children risk neurological problems if they develop measles or whooping cough.

• prevent: Can you prevent measles: Measles can be prevented by a highly effective vaccine.

Noun used with modifier

• antigen: One common local cause of confusion is the use of the single antigen measles vaccine in France.

Adjective modifier

• german: Q - I became partially deaf as a result of the german measles at the age of eleven.

• German: Children with German measles should be kept away from pregnant women.

• combined: It organized trials of poliovirus and measle vaccines and more recently the very successful combined measles, mumps and rubella ( MMR ) vaccine.

• e.g.: Treating childhood illnesses with homeopathy ( e.g. measles, mumps, chickenpox, impetigo, molluscum and whooping cough ).

• single: There is no source of single licensed measles or mumps vaccines in this country.

• acute: No child has died of acute measles in the UK for more than a decade.

Modifies a noun

• mumps: MMR protects your child and your family against measles mumps and rubella.

• vaccine: Some European countries make use of single measles vaccine in addition to MMR.

• epidemic: In the last measles epidemic in the United States in 1991, there were 55,000 cases.

• virus: The group reported finding measles virus in samples of bowel disease tissue.

• vaccination: The country is France which gives a single measles vaccination only in the event of a serious measles crisis.

• outbreak: The West coast of Scotland has already had a measles outbreak with 5000 cases of which 130 were admitted to a fever unit.

Preposition: in

• child: When possible we used gamma globulin to abort measles in pre-school children.