In 2015, the Oregon Health Authority was notified of the death of a boy with 
subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), a rare and fatal complication of 
measles. The patient, aged 14 years, had reportedly been vaccinated against 
measles in the Philippines at age 8 months. However, the patient contracted 
measles at age 1 year while still in the Philippines. He had been well until 
2012, when his neurodegenerative symptoms began. After the diagnosis of SSPE was 
made, the patient remained in home hospice care until his death. Investigators 
from the Oregon Health Authority and the Oregon Health and Science University 
reviewed the patient's medical records and interviewed the parents. Vaccination 
against measles can prevent not only acute measles and its complications, but 
also SSPE.