Transverse myelitis unlikely to be due to measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine

EDITOR,--K A Joyce and J E Rees report on a 20 year old man who developed subacute transverse myelitis two to three weeks after immunisation with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine.1 Five days after vaccination he developed a feverish exanthematous disease, which fluctuated for two weeks and preceded the onset of the neurological symptoms. Postvaccination transverse myelitis was diagnosed when a significant rise in titres of rubella antibodies was …