18-year-old dies of measles in PA from severe neurological complication
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宾夕法尼亚州卫生部确认该州出现第四例麻疹死亡病例，死者为米夫林县一名未接种疫苗的18岁居民。验尸官称其死因为急性播散性脑脊髓炎，这是麻疹罕见但已知的严重并发症。州卫生部还确认杰斐逊县一名未接种疫苗的40岁女性死亡，此前兰开斯特县已有两名婴儿死亡。
A fourth person in Pennsylvania has died of measles, the state health department confirmed Tuesday. The latest death was in an unvaccinated 18-year-old resident of Mifflin County.
In the announcement, the state health department also confirmed a county coroner's report over the weekend of the death of an unvaccinated 40-year-old woman in Jefferson County. The state had previously reported two deaths in Lancaster County, both were in infants—a newborn boy and a 6-week-old girl, both too young to be vaccinated.
According to the Mifflin County coroner, Andrea L. Alcalde, the 18-year-old's cause of death was determined to be acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), which is a rare but known severe complication of measles. The condition is characterized by a rapidly progressing autoimmune disorder in which aberrant inflammation from an infection strips away the protective coverings of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Before measles vaccines were widely used, ADEM was commonly associated with measles, though other viral infections can also spur its development.
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