Nice : a teenage girl not vaccinated dies from the measles

PATRICE MAGNIEN/20 MINUTES/SIPA

Published the 29.07.2017 at 09: 10 am.

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The measles has made its first victim in France. A young girl of 16-year-old native of Nice, has succumbed to this infectious disease to the hospital North of Marseille (AP-HM). The minister of Health, Agnes Buzyn, announced to the national Assembly on Wednesday 26 July to illustrate the severity of the pathology, and especially, to highlight the consequences of low immunization coverage.

Because the girl, end of the travelling community, had never been vaccinated against measles. Contaminated presumably at the beginning of June, the teenager has been hospitalized in intensive care in Marseille on 6 June. “She was suffering from respiratory distress very severe. The CHU of Nice we sent it to that it benefits from a technique of respiratory support in particular, via an extra-corporeal, that we have “, said to Pourquoidocteur the AP-HM.

Late diagnosis

This is only a week later that the diagnosis of measles is made. “The test was carried out on 13 June because the parents have informed us that other children of the family were hospitalized in Nice for the measles “, said the establishment of marseille.

Despite the efforts of the team of resuscitation, the state of the young woman deteriorated in the following days. She died on 27 June.

Between 1 January and 31 may 2017, 295 cases of measles were reported to health authorities, which is 6 times more than the previous year. Half the patients are under the age of 13, and almost 15 % have less than a year.

Among these patients, 144 were hospitalized and 24 have experienced serious neurological complications, and respiratory. Two-thirds of the cases had never been vaccinated, and less than a quarter have received one or two doses of vaccine.

The resurgence of measles in the country is related to this low level of immunization. A phenomenon that hopes to stop the government introducing the vaccination requirement for 11 diseases as early as 2018.