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The girl who died of measles in Bordeaux could not have been vaccinated because she had received a heart transplant in her early childhood. His death is a reminder of the need for maximum immunization coverage to protect the most vulnerable people.
She was particularly fragile. The 16 year old girl died Friday, July 6 in Bordeaux from complications of measles had been grafted from the heart to 2 years and a half and could not be vaccinated because of antirejection treatments, said his mother on Tuesday at France Blue Gascogne.
Immunosuppressants who contraindicated the vaccine
"At the age of 2, she was getting very tired and was told a life threatening prognosis, explained Sylvie Eraville, the mother Without a new heart it 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.
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. The teenager had participated in the World Transplant Games in 2013, 2015 and 2017, with gold medals in swimming and table tennis.
Good immunization coverage protects the most fragile
Before Navy, 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 suffered from an immune deficiency since his birth and had a kidney transplant five years ago.
His story "illustrates the need for vaccination coverage especially in order to prevent those who can not be vaccinated from being affected by a potentially life-threatening disease for them " then reacted to the renal transplant badociation Renaloo.
The first death of measles from the year was held on February 10 in Poitiers. It was a 32-year-old mother who had never been vaccinated and who contracted the virus while driving her father to emergencies.
The first signs of a deterioration in Marine Eraville's health were appeared in May. The girl had been hospitalized at Bordeaux University Hospital and died of neurological complications, according to France Bleu Gascogne
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