Increase in congenital rubella occurrence after immunisation in Greece: retrospective survey and systematic review How does herd immunity work?
BMJPublished 4 December 1999Open access
Takis Panagiotopoulos, Ivi Antoniadou, E Valassi-Adam, Arno Berger
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With low vaccination coverage, the immunisation of boys and girls aged 1 year against rubella carries the theoretical risk of increasing the occurrence of congenital rubella.
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With low vaccination coverage, the immunisation of boys and girls aged 1 year against rubella carries the theoretical risk of increasing the occurrence of congenital rubella. This phenomenon, which has not been previously reported, occurred in Greece.
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