Abstract
Measles in Egypt, as in most parts of the world, is an endemic disease with biennial epidemic waves, which affects mainly children under 3 years of age. The epidemic waves appear mainly at the end of winter and in the spring. From the statistical data available, there is a high ease fatality rate, which is mainly due to the marked under reporting of measles cases, and at the same time a nearly full reporting on the mortality cases due to measles. The real case fatality rate does not exceed 1/10 of this apparent high case fatality rate. In spite of this fact, measles still ranks among the most important causes of childhood morbidity and mortality. As a cause of death among all acute communicable diseases, measles accounted for 17.4 to 23.5% of the deaths in the years 1958 to 1961.
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