Why are doctors so ignorant of the means of detecting and curing the measles virus.?

Answer 1

There would not be room on a page of answers to list the diseases we cant cure, there would equally not be room to to list the things we can cure or control . This is far from ignorance, but we are as so many people like to remind us, not gods!

Answer 2

Measle vaccine is readily available.

All children who don't have a known allergy to the cntents of the vaccine should be vaccinated in infancy.

In this way we will reduce the spread of the disease and (hopefully) eventually elliminate teh disease.

As a virus, there is little that can be done to treat the disease other than to relieve the symptoms as they occur.

In most cases, there are no long term effects, and a strict adherence to reccommended vacination programs will lead to fewer individuals susceptible to long term effects being exposed to the disease.

Answer 3

If you know anything about microbiology, you'll find that most viruses are incurable because they're a lot more adaptable and a lot smaller than bacterium etc. Vaccination is usually the best option, although when we get our flu jabs, even then scientists have to predict which strain of flu is likely to be prevalent in that specific year. Still, you can always bunk off work by saying 'I've got an incurable virus called coryza [or acute nasopharyngitis]' when this is simply a posh way of saying 'I've got a cold!'

Answer 4

Vaccines to prevent the disease have been around since 1963.

Clinical diagnosis of measles requires a history of fever of at least three days together with at least one of the three Cs. (cough, coryza (runny nose) and conjunctivitis or red eyes).Observation of Koplik's spots is also diagnostic of measles.

Alternatively, laboratory diagnosis of measles can be done with confirmation of positive measles IgM antibodies or isolation of measles virus RNA from respiratory specimens. In cases of measles infection following secondary vaccine failure IgM antibody may not be present. In these cases serological confirmation may be made by showing IgG antibody rises by Enzyme immunoasay or complement fixation.

Positive contact with other patients known to have measles adds strong epidemiological evidence to the diagnosis.

There is no specific treatment or antiviral therapy for uncomplicated measles. Most patients with uncomplicated measles will recover with rest and supportive treatment.

If you have a better answer please enlighten the world.

Answer 5

Surely there has been a measles vaccine around for years?

Answer 6

I have similar concerns about their detection and treatment of borreliosis / lyme disease , which many suffer with , but hardly anything is done about it.