Rubella: epidemiological situation and control measures
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rubella, congenial rubella syndrome, epidemiological surveillance, rubella vaccineAbstract
Rubella was first identified in Germany and was considered a benign disease when, in 1941, Normal MacAlister Gregg, an Australian ophthalmologist, examining many newborns with congenital cataract, born to mothers with a history of rubella in the beginning of the pregnancy, associated maternal infection to cataract occurrence. Post natal or acquired rubella is an exanthema benign disease self contained, characterized by low grade fever and lynphadenopathy in general retro auricular, cervical and occipital. When the disease occurs in susceptible pregnant women, especially in the first trimester, causes congenital malformations, such as audition deficiencies, congenital cardiopathies cataracts and delay of neuropsicho and motor development. After the elimination of smallpox, the certificate of polio elimination and also the elimination of the circulation of the autochthonous measles virus, American countries established the goal to eliminate rubella and SRC until 2010.
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