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Article: RUBELLA RATES AT ALL-TIME LOW
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 19, 1987
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The rate of rubella has reached an all-time low in the United
States, and federal health officials say eradication of the
once-common childhood disease is possible in this country.
The national Centers for Disease Control said last week that
551 cases of the disease, also known as German measles, were
reported in the United States last year, down 12 percent from 1985
and down 99 percent since the advent of rubella vaccine.
Five percent of the nation's counties reported rubella cases
last year, ...