[Neurological complications following measles virus vaccination. Evaluation of the cases seen between 1971--1977 (author's transl)].

Within 11 days following vaccination with live virus vaccine in Hamburg 18 cases of neurological complications have been observed between 1971--1977, including 2 cases of abortive encephalitis. A causal connection was assumed only when the onset of symptoms was later than on the 7th day after the vaccination. The following parameters were evaluated; clinical symptoms, laboratory data, seasonal distribution of the neurological complications and their relationship to the total number of vaccinations, and the different results of studies from various countries using the same vaccine strain (Schwarz). The age disposition to convulsions following measles vaccination is comparable to convulsive reactions after smallpox vaccination.