Yes--in fact one of my earliest reads (probably published ~ '53) was my older brother's Sunday School book, a several-chapter tale about a little boy named Johnny (just found it: The Little White Church, Imogene McPherson, 1949!) --in one of the chapters he was in bed with measles. His mother closed the window shades because the light hurt his eyes. I was too young to have any recollection of measles; remember chicken pox at 4, and the mumps (and gave it to my little brother) at 8--so 1954 and '58. They were no big deal, simply an expected part of childhood. My daughters (born between '78 and '87) all had chickenpox, but not the others as they had MMR shots. I love reading children's lit--read everything my daughters took out of local library.