So then they say that confirmed you have to isolate the measles virus from a specimen. You have specific nucleic acids, that’s a PCR test. You have IgG seroconversion or a significant rise in measles immunoglobulin G antibody. Those are molecular diagnostic tests claiming that the antibodies confirm that it’s measles or a positive serological test with immunoglobulin M antibody. So that’s a another molecular diagnostic test. So those are how you know. So let’s just start with the clinical description. In other words, you’re looking at a child and you say if the child has a rash that’s over a lot of their body and a temperature and a cough and a cold mucus and eye inflammation, that’s measles.

And then you confirm it with the molecular diagnostic tests or virology experiments. So let’s just stick with the clinical description first and then compare that with a similar disease called Roseola. And here we have a high fever ranging from 103 to 105. A rash may develop all over the child’s body and you have cough, runny nose, and pink eye as well as some other things. Swollen lymph nodes, vomiting, diarrhea, etc. And then you have a description of the rash. So basically these are identical. Cough, runny nose, runny eyes, high temperature, generalized rash, and fever over 101.

What about the illness called fifths disease? So they say it’s caused by a parvovirus. It says no symptoms are mild, although you can have, when people get this infection, you can have a fever, you can have a cough, you can have rashes all over your body, and doesn’t say it, but you can also have conjunctivitis. So the rash has a certain characteristic which is slightly different. And you could put maybe five or six or seven or maybe other syndromes, so-called, that children get that all have basically identical symptoms. The point that I’m making here is, and this has been verified many times with studies, that if you show a child to a range of experienced pediatricians, they will not come to an agreement on who has measles and who has some other, quote, viral-caused disease.

And so there is no way to make any definitive diagnosis based on the symptoms. And in fact, I don’t have this to pull up, but the CDC says as much that you cannot make a diagnosis based on the clinical description. All you can do is describe what happens and say this may be measles, or it could be any number of seven to ten other childhood illnesses which are indistinguishable from what we’re calling measles. [tr:trw].

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