'My caring, happy daughter died... it's like a nightmare'

A 'caring' schoolgirl who 'always had a smile on her face' died after suffering complications from measles - 10 years after she was infected. Rebecca Archer, from Salford, lost her 10-year-old daughter Renae last September.

Renae caught measles as a baby when she was too young to be vaccinated. But a decade later, she developed a rare brain disease which was caused by her measles infection.

Her motor functions began to deteriorate, before her family tragically had to turn off Renae's life support. Six months on, Rebecca is urging parents to make sure their child is vaccinated, to avoid spreading measles in the same way someone passed the infection onto Renae - with fatal consequences.

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Rebecca said: "It’s like a nightmare, it’s still hard to believe that’s why Renae’s not here anymore. Because of having the measles 10 years previous."

At five months old, Renae suffered a fever and began struggling to breathe, prompting Rebecca to call for an ambulance. Renae was rushed to hospital and kept in overnight, as doctors diagnosed her with measles.

"She was poorly for a few days," said Rebecca. "After that, everything went back to normal - she was fit and healthy.”

Yet after a decade when everything seemed OK, Rebecca received a phone call from Renae's school, telling her she had suffered a seizure. Renae went on to have one 'every week', Rebecca says, and after the third incident she was given an MRI scan which found 'swelling' on her brain.

"Her motor functions started to deteriorate - she just slowly couldn’t speak or eat,” added Rebecca. “When she went into [intensive care], they didn’t know what was actually