{"id":222183,"date":"2025-09-20T00:02:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/this-deadly-brain-disorder-can-develop-a-decade-after-you-get-the-measles-and-it-just-killed-a-child"},"modified":"2025-09-20T00:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:02:55","slug":"this-deadly-brain-disorder-can-develop-a-decade-after-you-get-the-measles-and-it-just-killed-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/this-deadly-brain-disorder-can-develop-a-decade-after-you-get-the-measles-and-it-just-killed-a-child","title":{"rendered":"This deadly brain disorder can develop a decade after you get the measles \u2014 and it just killed a child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-deadly-brain-disorder-can-develop-a-decade-after-you-get-the-measles-and-it-just-killed-a-child.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A school-aged child in L.A. <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/child-dies-measles-related-complication-la-county-public-health-officials-say\/17794893\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">recently died<\/a> after developing a rare neurological disease years after contracting the measles.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities didn\u2019t reveal many details about the case, except that the child was infected with measles as an infant, before they were eligible for the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Measles is a respiratory disease that spreads easily from person to person. The first dose of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/vaccines\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">routinely recommended<\/a> for kids between 12 and 15 months old. A second dose is given before kindergarten or first grade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A school-aged child in L.A. recently died after developing a rare neurological disease years after contracting the measles. Authorities didn\u2019t reveal many details about the case, except that the child was infected with measles as an infant, before they were eligible for the vaccine. Measles is a respiratory disease that spreads easily from person to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}