Japan: 2013 Rubella cases

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Source: http://www.pacificnewscenter.com/in...tbreak-in-japan&catid=45:guam-news&Itemid=156


DPHSS: Guam Travelers and Residents Advised There Is a Rubella Outbreak in Japan

Written by News Release Friday, 05 April 2013 19:09

Guam News - Guam News

Guam - The Department of Public Health and Social Services (DPHSS) has been informed that an outbreak of rubella, also known as German measles, is currently occurring in Japan. As of March 21, 2013, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Japan reported a total of 2,021 cases of rubella. The highest numbers of cases reported are in Tokyo followed by Kanagawa then Chiba...

 

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Re: Japan: 2013 Rubella cases

Source: http://www.fiercevaccines.com/story/japan-faces-vaccine-shortage-struggle-control-rubella/2013-06-26


Japan faces vaccine shortage in struggle to control rubella
June 26, 2013 | By Nick Paul Taylor

The consequences of a fall in the vaccination rate can lie dormant for years. A measles outbreak in Wales this year stemmed from opposition to vaccines in the late 1990s. And it has taken 20 years for Japan to feel the implications of dropping the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) shot.

Japan has a patchy record of administering the rubella vaccine--with boys largely excluded from immunization campaigns--and dropped the MMR shot in 1993 amid safety concerns. The upshot is that many men aged 20 to 40 years old lack protection against rubella. This demographic has been hit hardest by a 2013 rubella outbreak, accounting for 75% of the more than 10,000 cases in Japan up to June 9. There were only 2,392 cases in the whole of 2012, and that marked a sharp rise over the previous two years...

 

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Re: Japan: 2013 Rubella cases

Source: http://www.healio.com/pediatrics/va...59C73}/Rubella-incidence-in-Japan-on-the-rise

Rubella incidence in Japan on the rise
CDC. MMWR. 2013;62:457-462.

June 26, 2013

As of 2013, two WHO regions have established goals to eliminate rubella, the region of the Americas by 2010 and the European region by 2015. Targets also have been established by the Western Pacific region for accelerated rubella control and congenital rubella syndrome prevention, according to a recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report...

 

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Re: Japan: 2013 Rubella cases

Source: http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/ja...orn-with-congenital-rubella-syndrome-in-2013/


Published On: Tue, Jan 14th, 2014
Outbreak News | By Robert Herriman
Japan suffers worst year of children born with congenital rubella syndrome in 2013

Japan has battled with a rubella, or German measles outbreak throughout 2013, with the highest number of cases being reported from the Osaka and Tokyo Metropolis Prefectures.

The latest numbers on total rubella cases showed the Asian country with 14,171 rubella cases as of Oct. 16, 2013. This compares with 2,353 rubella cases reported in 2012.

In a report today in the Japan Times, thirty-one children were born with congenital rubella syndrome in Japan in 2013, the worst on record, according to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases...