Rubella eradication

The virulence of rubella virus for the fetus was fully defined between 1963 and 1965 when an epidemic of rubella occurred in Europe and the US, followed by a wave of damaged babies. Attenuated live virus vaccines were developed in our and other laboratories and their use has already considerably cha...

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Published inVaccine Vol. 19; no. 25; pp. 3311 - 3319
Main Author Plotkin, Stanley A
Format Book Review Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Elsevier Ltd 14.05.2001
Elsevier
Subjects
Biological and medical sciences
Disease Outbreaks
Environmental Monitoring
Epidemiological Monitoring
Epidemiology. Vaccinations
Female
General aspects
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Infectious diseases
Measles virus
Medical sciences
Planification. Prevention (methods). Intervention. Evaluation
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious - prevention & control
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Rubella - complications
Rubella - congenital
Rubella - epidemiology
Rubella - immunology
Rubella - prevention & control
Rubella Vaccine - pharmacology
rubella virus
Syndrome
United States - epidemiology
United States
Infection
Rubella
Viral disease
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Summary:The virulence of rubella virus for the fetus was fully defined between 1963 and 1965 when an epidemic of rubella occurred in Europe and the US, followed by a wave of damaged babies. Attenuated live virus vaccines were developed in our and other laboratories and their use has already considerably changed the epidemiology of rubella. Nevertheless, only about half of the world's countries vaccinate against rubella. We argue for the combination of rubella vaccine with measles vaccine in all campaigns for the control of measles, and will discuss the strategies by which congenital rubella syndrome could be eradicated at little additional cost.
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ISSN:0264-410X
1873-2518
DOI:10.1016/S0264-410X(01)00073-1