Encephalitis Complicating Measles

Notes on Cerebellar Ataxia in Childhood

“…Even where an antecedent virus infection is incriminated the pathology is uncertain. There are three main views of their nature: that they constitute a straightforward inflanmation of the brain by the virus concerned, or that they constitute an allergic reaction to the infection, or that they are the result of another virus infection wakened into activity by the preceding infection (Reisman and Rosen, 1943).…”