Measles Took My Daughter, NYT opinion on vaccine risks

A New York Times opinion piece recounts a mother whose daughter, Renae, contracted measles as an infant and died 11 years later from subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. Doctors confirmed the fatal SSPE diagnosis after a spinal fluid test returned from London. The mother says Renae caught measles before she was old enough for the MMR vaccine; Renae became eligible seven months later and received the shot, but it was too late. She urges parents to vaccinate and preserve herd immunity because measles can replicate silently and later cause fatal neurologic disease in children too young to be vaccinated.