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SSPE

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  1. subacute sclerosing panencephalitis.


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County who had contracted measles as an infant died of SSPE, health officials said in September.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

Of the cases reported following the measles resurgence that ended in 1991, one in every 609 children under the age of 12 months at the time they contracted measles eventually came down with SSPE.

From Salon • Mar. 11, 2025

There can also be long-term complications from measles, such as SSPE, which stands for subacute sclerosing panencephalitis.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024

And a complication known as subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE, may emerge from dormancy years later.

From Washington Post • Nov. 26, 2019

In SSPE, a defective measles virus “hides out” in the brain, then suddenly re-emerges in adolescence.

From Time • Feb. 7, 2015

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