Long-term complication of measles in rural Bangladesh

A small retrospective study carried out in rural Bangladesh identified respiratory illness, diarrhoea and conjunctival dryness as complications of measles. A case-fatality rate of 1.3% was recorded. Association between length of diarrhoea and conjunctival dryness was noted. However, no difference was observed in the anthropometric data between cases and controls. The data suggest an association between measles, diarrhoea and clinical evidence of vitamin A deficiency, but fail to show an effect on growth in this small series.