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CDC OKs 1-month wait to get pregnant after rubella vaccine. (Recommendation had Been 3 Months).
ATLANTA -- Women need wait only 1 month to become pregnant after receiving the rubella vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted at its fall meeting.
The previous recommendation, to avoid pregnancy for 3 months after receipt of rubella-containing vaccine, was based on a decades-old report of vaccinelike rubella virus isolated from the eye of an aborted fetus from a mother who was inadvertently vaccinated 7 weeks before conception (JAMA 227[6]:621-27, 1974).
The vaccine in that study is no longer used in the United States, noted Dr. Susan Reef of the CDC's National Immunization Program.
Considerable data accumulated since then suggest that there is very little increased risk of congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) beyond 1 month.
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