Measles: grafted from the heart, the third victim could not be vaccinated

The third dead measles victim this year, a 16-year-old girl, had been grafted from the heart to 2.5 years and could not be vaccinated because of anti-rejection treatments, her mother said Tuesday, July 10, 2018. France Blue Gascony. Grafted patients must indeed take an immunosuppressive treatment 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 the people around them are, so as not to transmit the disease.

Navy, grafted from the heart to 2 years and died of measles at 16

" At the age of 2, she was very tired and I was diagnosed with a vital prognosis ", explained Sylvie Eraville, the mother of the young Marine. " Without a new heart she would not have survived ". The first signs of a deterioration of the health of Marine Eraville appeared in May 2018. The young girl was hospitalized with the CHU of Bordeaux and finally died of neurological complications, according to France Blue Gascogne. The death of the girl was announced Friday, July 6, 2018. It is not known how she contracted this highly contagious disease. 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 gold medals in swimming and table tennis.

Non-vaccination: the common cause of these deaths

The first death of measles of the year had occurred place on February 10, 2018 in Poitiers. She was a 32-year-old mother who had never been vaccinated and who contracted the virus while driving her father to the emergency room. A few months later, a man also immunodepressed was swept away by measles on June 9, 2018 in Marseille, the day before his 26 years. According to the newspaper Var Matin, this man, named Julien, had suffered from an immune deficiency since birth and had had a kidney transplant five years ago. Its history " illustrates the need for high immunization coverage, in particular to prevent those who can not be vaccinated from being affected by a potentially life-threatening disease ", the badociation responded. renal transplant recipients