Measles Killer: More Common than Believed Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis always fatal

NEW ORLEANS -- A rare and universally fatal complication of measles is more common than clinicians had thought, a researcher said here. The disease is subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) and in the pre-vaccine era investigators thought it occurred about one in 100,000 measles cases, according to James Cherry, MD, of the University of California Los Angeles. http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/IDWeek/61103?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2016-10-31&eun=g721819d0r&pos=0