No rubella testing
PA Wellington The Medical' Association 'does not support the stand taken by a Wellington -virologist, Dr. William Hamilton, against the Health Department’s rubella (German measles) immunisation programme. i/The .society’s members jvill not be asked to test women arid girls before ■they -are immunised to check that they are riot al-, ready. -protected against ■ the disease. Nor will members of the General Practitioners’ Society, although
the society supports Dr Hamilton’s stand. Dr Hamilton, the chief virologist. at the National Health Institute, became news when a letter he wrote to the Minister of Health (Mr Gair) about the programme was pub- . lished in the society’s journal. „ He said the vaccine used in the, programme could be a potentially dangerous cancer-;?—-including • hybrid virus.; Also; nobody ■should be given the vaccine unless tests showed the need for it.
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