Complications in Mesles

complications with measles are relatively common, ranging from mild and less serious complications such as diarrhea to more serious ones such as pneumonia (either direct viral pneumonia or secondary bacterial pneumonia),otitis media, acute encephalitis. (and very rarely SSPE—subacute sclerosing panencephalitis), and corneal ulceration . Complications are usually more severe in adults who catch the virus. The death rate in the 1920s was around 30% for measles pneumonia
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Between 1987 and 2000, the case fatality rate across the United States was 3 measles-attributable deaths per 1000 cases, or 0.3%. In underdeveloped nations with high rates of malnutrition and poor healthcare, fatality rates have been as high as 28%] In immunocompromised persons  the fatality rate is approximately 30%.