Subacute scleroserende panencefalitis in Nederland (1976-1986)

- Since 1976, when general vaccination against measles of 14-month-old children was introduced in The Netherlands, almost all new cases of SSPE were registered. Of 95 patients 77 were born and living in this country, 18 had come in from abroad. Since 1981 the number of new Dutch cases has decreased to 0 in 1986. In one child, immunized in 1974 at the age of four, the SSPE that occurred 9 years later could have been caused by the vaccine.

Epidemiology and risk factors of SSPE did not differ from reports from other countries. Treatment with inosiplex had no effect.