For sufficiently wide stairs, a rail is mounted to the treads of the stairs. A chair or lifting platform is attached to the rail. A person on the chair or platform is lifted as the chair moves along the rail. Stairlifts are known variously as stair lifts, stair-lifts, chair lifts, stair gliders and by other names. This type of chair lift should not be confused with the chairlift used by skiers. The term stair climber can refer either to stair lifts, or more commonly to the exercise equipment by the same name. Some of the first stairlifts to be produced commercially were advertised and sold in the USA in the 1930s by the Inclinator Company of America. Many users at the time were victims of polio.
A disease of cattle and swine caused by tapeworm larvae. measles. An infectious disease caused by the rubeola virus of the genus Morbillivirus, characterized by fever, cough, and a rash that begins on the face and spreads to other parts of the body. Vaccinations, usually given in early childhood, confer immunity to measles.
Measles is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. Before measles immunization was widely available, it used to be a significant cause of childhood illness and death. Measles is often confused with other viral fevers accompanied with rash by the elders in the household.In North India it is generally referred to as âkhasraâ.easles is characterised by sudden onset of high grade fever accompanied by cough, runny nose, watering of eyes and the appearance of a typical rash on the 3rd, 4th or 5th day of the fever, which typically gradually progresses from the upper body and face down to the feet.