The infectious disease specialist listed the rules of quarantine for measles

A measles patient is contagious in the last two to four days of the incubation period, which lasts up to 19 days, as well as for four to ten days after the rash appears, depending on the severity of the disease, Vladimir Nikiforov, head of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology at the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University and chief infectious Disease specialist at the FMBA, told Izvestia in an interview..

"Thus, the measles quarantine is on average 17 days. But when an immunoglobulin is administered to a sick person, it can take up to 21 days," the infectious disease specialist emphasized.

The expert also noted that it is better to get measles in childhood.

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