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

Juventila Liko, Judith A Guzman-Cottrill, Paul R Cieslak

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 2016

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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 patient's 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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Juventila Liko, Judith A Guzman-Cottrill, Paul R Cieslak. Notes from the Field: Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis Death - Oregon, 2015. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report. 2016;65(1):10-1