Rubella in Pregnancy

Abstract

ONCE called a "nuisance rather than a disease," German measles is anything but that for the expectant mother who contracts the infection in early pregnancy. Yet, even ten years after the teratogenic capacities of the virus have been established, the precise risk cannot be stated — so rare are cases among adult females at a selected stage of gestation, so variable are the expressions of maternal infection in the infant, so cumbersome is the task of case finding, follow-up study, classification of defect and centralization of data. It is doubtful, however, that the risk of serious malformation is more than . . .