Word: rubella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government approved a vaccine that will benefit no child already born, but is expected to save hundreds of thousands of unborn infants from death or dis abling malformations in the womb. It is a vaccine to protect against German measles, folk-named "three-day measles" and technically rubella. The first ship ments were on their way to doctors with in hours of the licensing announcement...
...Your statement that the HPV-77 rubella vaccine would be the first live-virus vaccine licensed to be given by injection...
...mother is in danger or if the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest. Four of these five states?Colorado, North Carolina, Georgia and Maryland?also authorize abortion if the child is likely to be born defective, as is commonly the case if the mother has had German measles (rubella) within the first three months of pregnancy. California did not sanction this ground because Governor Ronald Reagan threatened to veto any bill that included...
...five students had not eaten the same food except on the night of the big lecture, Kean is confident that they picked up their parasites from the snack bar's hamburgers. For them, as for most victims, the illness was uncomfortable and not disabling. But Toxoplasma is like rubella in one respect: it wreaks its worst havoc on the unborn child, causing encephalitis, hydrocephalus, heart damage and hepatitis. Says Kean: "If this epidemic had occurred in five pregnant women, the potential danger to their unborn children-either fetal death or severe brain damage-would have been enormous...
...last epidemic created a widespread demand for legalization of therapeutic abortion in cases where a woman has had rubella in the first three months of pregnancy...