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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

The child had been infected as an infant when they were too young to be vaccinated, and years later developed subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE, a fatal disease that targets the brain.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 16, 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

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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