Indian encephalitis is traced to measles

From Atlanta, at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases

Four outbreaks of encephalitis in India between 1995 and 1998 have been linked to a strange form of measles.

Although encephalitis is known to be a complication that occasionally follows measles, none of the ill children had a rash, so doctors didn’t suspect measles, says epidemiologist Niteen S.