Studies Document Brain Swelling, Sepsis in U.S. Measles Outbreaks

[ad_1] Declining U.S. vaccination rates have led to a resurgence in large measles outbreaks. Two papers examining South Carolina and Utah’s outbreak showed that hypoxemia and pneumonia were the most common conditions leading to hospitalization for measles. In the South Carolina report, two of 13 hospitalized patients developed measles encephalitis, a life-threatening complication that can […] The…