Notes from the Field: Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis Death - Oregon 2015.

Monday, 18th of January 2016 Print

MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2016 Jan 15;65(1):10-1. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6501a3.

Notes from the Field: Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis Death - Oregon 2015.

Liko J Guzman-Cottrill JA Cieslak PR.

Abstract

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 SSPE was made the patient remained in home hospice care until his death. Investigators from the Oregon Health Authority and the Oregon Health and Science University reviewed the patients medical records and interviewed the parents. Vaccination against measles can prevent not only acute measles and its complications but also SSPE.

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