Case of teenager with measles baffles doctors

The 19-year-old man was having difficulty breathing, feeling very weak and had high fever and rashes on his body when he was admitted last week to the Saint Luke’s Medical Center in Quezon City last week.

The teenager had the classic symptoms of measles. But what puzzled doctors was that the patient had had complete measles shots as child. He also comes from a middle- class neighborhood, not from a slum from where most measles cases have been reported.