Encephalitis Complicating Measles

Litvak, Abraham M.

doi:10.1001/archpedi.1943.02010140073006

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“…This is corroborated by the claim of about a quarter (27%) parents in Nigeria that their children go without food for a day, according to a survey conducted by Charity Save the Children Group (Augoye, 2012). Figure 1 also shows encephalitis 6 (5%) which is in line with the findings of many researchers (Litvak et al, 1943;Miller et al, 1995).…”

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Measles complications in a Nigerian hospital setting

Onoja¹

2013

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In spite of active measles vaccination efforts in 2005 in southern Nigeria, re-emergence continues to occur. This study was carried out to ascertain the incidence of measles, severity, mortality and its complications, in order to enhance treatment and reduce under-five child mortality. Secondary data from the records in the measles ward of Oni Memorial Children's Hospital, Ibadan was used. The period under investigation was 2005 to 2008, following the catch-up and follow-up measles vaccination exercise. Four hundred children between the ages of 5 months and 14 years were clinically diagnosed with measles from 2005 to 2008, of which 124 (31%) had complications. Among those with complications, 70 (56.5%) mortalities were observed, and as the children approached 14 years of age, incidence of measles reduced to 0%. Measles is still a major childhood problem in the southern part of Nigeria, even as the burden is more in northern Nigeria. This will invariably hamper global measles mortality reduction initiatives and the attainment of the fourth millennium development goal of reduction of under-five child mortality by 2015, hence the need for a coordinated and strategic mass vaccination effort to target unimmunized children.

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Measles complications in a Nigerian hospital setting

Onoja¹

2013

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“…The disease did not often follow vaccination in infancy or revaccination in later life; nearly all accidents were in those vaccinated for the first time in late childhood or in adult We (Ministry of Health, 1928°. The incidence in measles has been given as 1 case in 1,000-1,500 patients (Peterman & Fox, 1933;Geiger & Sappington, 1940;Litvak, Sands & Gibel, 1943)"; 75 % of cases are in children over the age of five years (Hoyne, 1939)°. Five of Marsden and Hurst's cases after smallpox occurred among 2,400 patients.…”

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“…At this time the patient has developed some immunity to the agent of the primary illness. Recent accounts from the USA confirming the impressions of Beach (1895)° and Ford (1928)° paint a less rosy picture for postmeasles encephalitis; many children, variously estimated at from 20 % to 90 %, show at least a relative impairment of the higher intellectual functions (for example, diminished ability to acquire new knowledge) and of personality and character (Hamilton & Hanna, 1941;Reisman & Rosen, 1943;Appelbaum, Dolgopol & Dolgin, 1949;Sawchuk, La Boccetta, Tornay, Silverstein & Peale, 1949) c ; the longer the patients are observed and the younger the child, the more noticeable these defects are (Litvak et al 1943;Meyer & Byers, 1952)°, and their severity is related to the duration of the acute stages of the malady. Temporary blindness is a rare occurrence (Koenigsfeld, 1945";Jennings, 1952' =).…”

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