Rubella Syndrome and Thrombocytopenic Purpura in Newborn Infants

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Abstract
DURING the winter and spring of 1964 the United States experienced the largest epidemic of rubella recorded during the past twenty years.1 In Connecticut over 40,000 cases were reported to the State Health Department, and a conservative estimate places the actual number at closer to 200,000 occurring in the State's population of approximately 2,500,000.ǁ The importance of the disease, ordinarily a mild one, with few complications, lies in the 15 to 20 per cent incidence of damage to the fetus when rubella occurs in the first trimester of pregnancy.2 , 3 Beginning in October, 1964, nine months after the start of the . . .