A school-age child has died from a rare complication of measles contracted in infancy, Los Angeles County health officials said Thursday.
The child, who had been too young to be vaccinated when they were infected by the virus, died of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, according to the county health department. The incurable disorder causes progressive brain damage and is nearly universally fatal.
About 1 in 10,000 people who get measles develops the disorder, but the risk is 1 in 600 for infants.
i had it at 20, it gave me permanent scarring and nerve damage despite the rash being small. i think the severe stress i had at the time made it particular more damaging than the rash. another fun thing it was also affecting my spine too(i had pretty bad stiffness for a whole week" with backpain, so very close to getting meningitis, im betting if they did an LP they would be able to detect VZV in the CSF. its not as crazy as some of the posts of sub.