Premarital HAI screening for rubella antibodies.

Abstract

IN response to the increased public awareness of German measles and the introduction of an effective vaccine, the Chicago Board of Health in April 1970 implemented a program of continuing serologic surveillance of a premarital female population whose serum samples are submitted for the routine VDRL test for syphilis. The decision to initiate this program was determined after the statistically significant results of a survey of rubella antibody titers in women planning to be married, men, and children of both sexes were evaluated. The results of the profile study indi-