‘Epidemic nearly over’
PA Wellington A rubella epidemic that has swept most of the world in the last two years is now all but over, according to the Health Department’s director of health promotion, Dr R. Campbell Begg. At the height of the epidemic in New Zealand last year about 60 pregnant women contracted the disease, according to figures from the country’s three main laboratories. Probably other cases went unreported and not all women affected produced babies with congenital defects. Dr Begg said that the epidemic reached its peak toward the end of last year and had declined since. The epidemic started in the United Kingdom in 1978. and then spread throughout the world. It has been the most serious outbreak of the disease since 1964.
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Press, 1 May 1981, Page 10
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