The third victim of measles could not be vaccinated

The third dead measles victim this year year, a girl of 16 years, had been grafted from the heart to 2 years and a half and could not be vaccinated because of the anti-jet treatments, explained her mother on Tuesday at France Bleu Gascogne. "At the age of 2, she was getting very tired and was told a life-threatening prognosis, "said Sylvie Eraville, the young Marine's mother. "Without a new heart she would not have survived." Grafted patients must take immunosuppressive therapy for life to avoid rejection of the new organ. These treatments, which lower their immune defenses, prevent them from being vaccinated against measles, hence the importance that people around them are, so as not to transmit the disease. The death of the girl was announced Friday. It is not known how she contracted this very contagious disease.

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As a second death for the donor of the heart of the girl [19659005] For his mother it is also a second death for the donor of the heart of the girl. "Today, it is not only Marine who leaves, but there is also the donor," said his mother, according to which the teenager had participated in the World Transplant Games in 2013, 2015 and 2017, with the gold medal in swimming and table tennis. The first signs of a deterioration of the health of Marine Eraville appeared in May. The girl was hospitalized at the Bordeaux University Hospital and finally died of neurological complications, according to France Bleu Gascogne. Before her, a man also immunodepressed was swept away by measles, June 9 in Marseille, the day before his 26 years. According to the newspaper Var Matin, this man, named Julien, had been suffering from an immune deficiency since his birth and had had a kidney transplant five years ago.

His story "illustrates the need for high immunization coverage in order to in particular, to prevent those who can not be vaccinated from being affected by a potentially life-threatening disease for them, "the renal transplant group Renaloo responded to. The first death of measles of the year took place on February 10 in Poitiers. She was a 32-year-old mother who had never been vaccinated and had contracted the virus while driving her father to the emergency department.

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