what are the latest reports on rubella worlwide?
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In 1964 and 1965, an outbreak of the rubella caused 12.5 million infections in the United States and resulted in about 20,000 cases of birth defects, 6,200 stillbirths and at least 5,000 abortions (Brown, Washington Post, 3/21). A rubella vaccine licensed in 1969 is often administered to infants and young children in combination with measles and mumps vaccines (Reuters/Boston Globe, 3/22).
Between 1969 and 2004, rubella infections worldwide decreased from 57,686 cases to nine cases, none of which originated in the United States, according to CDC. CDC estimates that 93% of U.S. children younger than age two and 95% of school-aged children have received the rubella vaccine (Los Angeles Times, 3/22).
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