Word: rubella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woman gets German measles (rubella) in the first three months of pregnancy, or even during the four weeks before conception, there is grave danger that her baby will be born with severe cataracts, mental retardation or heart defects, or a combination of these handicaps. That much has been clear for years. But now German measles has been disclosed as an even more insidious crippler than anyone had thought possible...
Rationed Shots. Researchers are checking to make sure that the rubella virus has not mutated to a more virulent strain. So far, they have no evidence that this has happened...
...German tag was attached because the disease was mistakenly thought to be especially common in Germany. The medical term, rubella, is bad because it invites confusion with rubeola, the true "red" or "seven-day" measles...
...lowly cause of what is usually a lowly and unimportant disease, German measles (or rubella), long enjoyed the unsavory reputation of being the only virus clearly convicted of killing or crippling babies in the womb. But many other viruses are now emerging from researchers' culture tubes to qualify as enemies of the unborn...
...virus of German measles, or rubella, has been isolated and cultivated in test tubes, Government researchers at the National Institutes of Health announced last week. This long awaited discovery will make it possible to protect unborn babies against the malforming effects that the virus often produces when the mother becomes infected during the first three months of pregnancy...