Friday, 15 January 2016

PRO/EDR> Measles update (01): USA (OR) ex Philippines, SSPE

Measles -- United States
Liko J, Guzman-Cottrill JA, Cieslak PR.
In 2015, the Oregon Health Authority was notified of the death of a boy with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), a rare and fatal complication of measles. The patient, aged 14 years, had reportedly been vaccinated against measles in the Philippines at age 8 months. However, the patient contracted measles at age 1 year while still in the Philippines. He had been well until 2012, when his neurodegenerative symptoms began. After the diagnosis of

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