MEASLES IN TORONTO Parents refusing to immunise (Stats Can: 46% Canucks "FUNCTIONALLY ILLITERATE").

MDs in Toronto now have chance to see Clinical effects of Measles including KOPLIK SPOTS.Henry KOPLIK MD(Columbia ,NY) 1858-1927 ."whonamedit"

H. Koplik:
The diagnosis of the invasion of measles from a study of the exanthema as it appears on the buccal mucous membrane.
Archives of Pediatrics, New York, 1896; 13: 918-922.

Koplik spots not mentioned in OSLER "Principle & Practice of Medicine"  1892  D.Appleton,NY
Measles: pp 77-81.

"AMONG THE ERUPTIVE FEVERS IT RANKS THIRD IN THE DEATH-RATE",  Osler.

Late (1916-2010) U.Tor Prof.(Epid & Biometrics) W.HARDING le RICHE: MD(Wit.,SA) MPH(Harvard) FRCPC
World incidence and prevalence of the major communicable diseases In: Health and Mankind.(1967) Churchill.
"Cause of deaths
No.7 MEASLES  2.95%"