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Last week that fear was assuaged by Dr. Jorge A. Veronelli of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Writing in the A.M.A. Journal, Pediatrician Veronelli reported on a study of 1,686 children and their mothers in a Cleveland suburb, which shows that vaccinating children during a mother's pregnancy is "extremely unlikely to be hazardous to the unborn offspring...
...avoid confusion with naturally occurring rubella infections, Veronelli conducted his study in early winter, when there would be little or no natural rubella in the community. Before vaccinating the children, he tested their mothers' blood, found 62 women susceptible to rubella. To their children he gave only inert, placebo injections, rather than risk indirectly infecting a vulnerable woman who might be pregnant without yet knowing...
...susceptible siblings of the 1,534 children who received rubella vaccines yielded no traces of response to the virus. In most cases there was little or none of the telltale rise in blood-antibody that signals the system's protective reaction to the virus. As a result, Veronelli believes that the vaccine will not spread infection to others...
...pediatrician's findings were reassuring. Because antibody levels induced by vaccination are lower than those produced by the natural disease, Veronelli is doubtful about long-term protection from the vaccines. Only periodic blood testing of the young recipients will tell. In the meantime, Veronelli urges continued research efforts to develop a killed-virus rubella vaccine, which would provide safe booster protection even in early pregnancy...
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