{"id":34193,"date":"2026-09-11T15:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34193"},"modified":"2026-09-11T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:54:14","slug":"7-year-old-boy-dies-years-after-contracting-a-highly-contagious-disease-as-an-infant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34193","title":{"rendered":"7-Year-Old Boy Dies Years After Contracting a Highly Contagious Disease as an Infant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A baby survived measles at 7 months old. Years later, the disease came back in a devastating way. \ud83d\udc94<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At just 7 months old, the boy contracted measles.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, at age 6, he began suffering from seizures and cognitive decline.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors diagnosed him with <strong>subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE)<\/strong>\u2014a rare, progressive and fatal brain disorder that can develop years after a measles infection.<\/p>\n<p>By age 7, the little boy had died at a California children\u2019s hospital.<\/p>\n<p>SSPE can begin with personality changes, mood problems and headaches before progressing to severe seizures, muscle spasms, loss of vision, dementia and eventually problems controlling breathing and heart function.<\/p>\n<p>There is no cure, although treatment may slow the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Most people who have measles never develop SSPE, but the risk remains years after the original infection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The heartbreaking reality is that measles may seem to be gone\u2014but in rare cases, its effects can return years later. \ud83d\udc94<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A baby survived measles at 7 months old. Years later, the disease came back in a devastating way. \ud83d\udc94 At just 7 months old, the boy contracted measles. Years later, at age 6, he began suffering from seizures and cognitive decline. Doctors diagnosed him with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE)\u2014a rare, progressive and fatal brain disorder&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34193\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;7-Year-Old Boy Dies Years After Contracting a Highly Contagious Disease as an Infant&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34195,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34193\/revisions\/34195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}