A healthy 13-year-old boy who had spent the first 4.5 years of his life in an orphanage in Thailand before adoption by an American couple became ill with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis and died several months later. The boy had most likely contracted wild-type measles in Thailand. Measles complications are a risk in international adoptions.

A 7-year-old boy presented with deteriorating vision and macular degenerative changes. A month later he had developed unusual behaviour and increasing forgetfulness. An electroencephalogram showing periodic complexes, and high measles complement-fixation titres in the cerebrospinal fluid and blood, confirmed the diagnosis of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. Four months after the onset of vi...

I the past most traffic control strategies have focused primarily on optimizing the operation of traffic facilities to serve a given and fixed amount of traffic flow. However, as the ultimate limit of such improvements is being approached, significant further improvements can only be achieved through the pursuit of different types of strategies. One such approach involves improved routing of tr...