Word: rubella
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...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...
...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...
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...
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...