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Public health planner; BBV Prevention & Harm Reduction, climate action. I live and work on Wardandi Noongar Boodjar
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These infections are not innocuous.

In September this year, California tragically lost another school-aged child to SSPE she developed because she contracted measles as a baby too young to yet have her measles vaccine

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28387784/
Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis: The Devastating Measles Complication That Might Be More Common Than Previously Estimated - PubMed
SSPE cases in California occurred at a high rate among unvaccinated children, particularly those infected during infancy. Protection of unvaccinated infants requires avoidance of travel to endemic areas, or early vaccination prior to travel at age 6-11 months. Clinicians should be aware of SSPE in p …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM