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LOS ANGELES - A school-aged child in Los Angeles County died due to complications from a measles infection.

What we know:

According to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, the child who died was originally infected with measles as an infant, before being old enough to receive the measles vaccine.

The vaccine is generally administered between 12 and 15 months of age.

The unidentified child recovered from the initial measles illness, but later developed and died from subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, also known as SSPE, a universally fatal complication that can occur in individuals who had measles early in life, according to county officials.

SSPE is a rare, progressive brain disorder that is a late complication of infection from the measles virus. SSPE

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