Rubella Vaccine For Children
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 6. The Cabinet has agreed to implement the balance of the recommendations of the epidemiology advisory committee of the Board of Health for a vaccination campaign against German measles (rubella).
The Minister of Health (Mr McKay) said in a statement today that this meant that
the Department of Health would arrange a programme of vaccination in primary schools for children up to the standard 4 level. Also, parents with children four years of age would be encouraged ' to have them vaccinated by their own doctors, who would be supplied the vaccine free of charge. Because of the warning from the World Health Organisation that this year was likely to be an epidemic year for German measles, the Cabinet had already agreed, as a first step, to provide the rubella vaccine free to medical practitioners for women in the child-bearing age group, as recommended by the committee, the Minister said.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32265, 7 April 1970, Page 26
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