Inside STAT: The tricks that make measles so infectious

(ALEX HOGAN / STAT)

Measles is an infecting machine — it’s skilled at finding people who are susceptible to it and making them sick. There’s a series of factors that give measles that power. For starters, you don’t need to be exposed to a lot of the virus to become infected. And when people are infected with measles, they emit a bunch of viruses when they cough or even exhale. That’s a bad combination. In a new video, STAT’s Alex Hogan explores the tricks that measles has up its sleeve. Watch here.