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.
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