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Status of Rubella infection in India

Rubella or three-day measles is a mild disease. It is mainly a disease of children. But because of widespread vaccination programme in developed countries there is shift in the age of occurrence beyond childhood period. It is widespread worldwide. Studies in India indicate that approximately 40 percent of women of child bearing age are susceptible to rubella.1Sometimes the subclinical infections may be one to six times as common as clinical infection 2. The exact incidence of “Congenital rubella Syndrome” is not known. But a large percentage of infections (50-60 %) are asymptomatic.3

Normally the infection of children and adults is usually mild, self-limiting and often asymptomatic. The prognosis in …show more content…

Problems rarely occur when rubella is contracted by the mother after 20 weeks of gestation. Infected infants discharge the rubella virus from body secretions for many months after births; they constitute a potential hazard to non- immune pregnant women and children. Though not as infectious, as measles, rubella can achieve 100% transmission rate in closed population. There is no specific treatment for Rubella.
Prevention of rubella really means a prevention of congenital rubella, because acquired rubella is of minimal clinical significance, except when it affects pregnant women. It can be avoided by immunizing children and non – pregnant women and routine testing of pregnant women for antibody; abortion is usually offered to women infected in early pregnancy.
Since the isolation of the virus in 1962 several live attenuated vaccines have been prepared. The use of rubella vaccine began in 1969, and a combined formulation (Measles and Rubella or Measles Mumps and Rubella) in the 1970s. Active immunization against rubella now is with live attenuated vaccines. The goal of rubella immunization is to prevent congenital rubella syndrome during a future

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