Introduction: Measles virus belonging to the genus Morbillivirus in the family Paramyxoviridae, transmitted by aerosol and characterized by fever, respiratory symptoms, redness of eyes & maculopapular rash. Material & methods: Children’s 0-15 years of age with suspected case of measles symptoms like fever, cough, redness of eyes & maculopapular rash attending at Hospital which included in the study. Serum samples were screened for measlesIgM by ELISA method. Result & discussion: Out of 346 samples, total 42 (12.14%) were positive for measles IgM Ab. Among the positive measles cases 26 (61.9%) were 0-5 years of age, 12 (28.6%) were 6-10 years of age and 04 (9.5%) were 11- 15 years of age. A majority of the Measles case belong to lower socioeconomic status (66.7%). It was found that as much as 64.3% of the mothers of children were illiterates while nearly half of cases (54.8%) were non-working mother. Only 21.4% infants were exclusively breast fed and 59.5% cases found in not immunized children. Conclusion: This study recognized age, nutritional status of children, socioeconomic status vaccination status of children as important demographic and risk factor of measles virus infection in children.