Word: rubella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medical researchers working for the U.S. Public Health Service announced last week that they had developed a vaccine against German measles (rubella) that appears, from the first test results, to be both effective and safe. Their report to the American Pediatric Society, declared PHS Surgeon General William H. Stewart, indicates that this disease, notorious as a killer and crippler of the unborn, "can be brought under control in the not too distant future...
...medical "palmists" look for is half a dozen common abnormalities. A single deep crease, instead of two separated lines, from the base of the index finger to the base of the pinkie is known as a "simian line" (see diagram). It occurs with many disorders including mongolism and some rubella (German measles) defects. Also unusual is a radial loop pattern pointing toward the thumb in the ridges of any finger other than the index...
...letter Y formed by the junction of three lines. The crucial one is the axial triradius; on most palms it is just above the first flesh crease where hand joins wrist. If, in both hands, it is higher up, closer to the fingers, it may indicate inborn abnormalities from rubella or other causes...
...disasters spurred the current increase. First was the thalidomide tragedy, which left some 10,000 European babies deformed or crippled, and in the U.S. led to the publicized case of Sherry Finkbine, who went to Sweden to be aborted. The other was an even worse disaster: the German measles (rubella) epidemic that began late in 1963 in New England. It moved slowly across the U.S., is still claiming victims in the Pacific states, and is expected to leave more than 30,000 U.S. babies stillborn or crippled. Doctors widely disagree as to what proportion of women who get the infection...
Eight nurses and a doctor at New York University Hospital contracted rubella last fall, and some of them passed on the infection to roommates, family and friends. The nurses and the doctor had all been caring for babies who were malformed because their mothers had had rubella. But the moth ers had been sick from six to eight months earlier. Surely the babies could not still be carrying the virus? As a matter of fact they were, Dr. Louis Z. Cooper told the New York Academy of Medicine. Worse, they were shedding it and spreading it all around them...