"Saijal Ladd's week in hospital remains a blur. The very worst days still feel like a fog, punctuated by two nightmarish memories. First, attempting to speak to a consultant to discuss if she should be rushed to ICU, but being unable to form words through her breathlessness. And later, a family member's exhausted face mouthing: We almost lost you in the night."
"My body's systems had started to shut down, she says, explaining that her liver and lungs were struggling as they fought the infection. The clinicians were unsure if I would make it through until morning. She still sounds disbelieving as she describes crawling to the bathroom before she called an ambulance and looked down to see a rash covering her body."
Saijal Ladd required a week in hospital after severe measles left her breathless, vomiting and with a full-body rash. Her liver and lungs struggled as the infection progressed and clinicians were unsure she would survive the night. She crawled to call an ambulance and afterwards needed three months off work to recover. The experience left lasting trauma and fear. The UK recently lost its WHO measles-free status, which requires at least 12 months without endemic transmission. Transmission had stopped in 2016 and 2017 but later resumed, ending the measles-free certification.
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