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Subacute-Sclerosing Panencephalitis

What are the causes?

The precise sequence of events that results in the development of this disease in a tiny proportion of the population is not known. The great majority of children who develop SSPE are known to have had an attack of classical measles, usually many years before. Over fifty per cent of cases have had the disease at the unusually early age of under two years.

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Medical text written November 2001 by Dr R Appleton. Last updated January 2006 by Dr R Appleton, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, UK.

 

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