Rubella vaccination success in Australia: no time for complacency

Ballestas, Teresa M; McEvoy, Suzanne P

doi:10.5694/mja12.11198

To the Editor: A major achievement of the National Immunisation Program is the progress towards elimination of congenital rubella syndrome and interruption of endemic rubella transmission in Australia.1 However, some population subgroups remain at risk of rubella infection. We describe a workplace outbreak in Perth in 2011.

Communicable Disease Control, South Metropolitan Public Health Unit, Perth, WA.

Correspondence: teresa.ballestas@health.wa.gov.au

Competing interests:

No relevant disclosures.

1. Song N, Gao Z, Wood JG, et al. Current epidemiology of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in Australia: progress towards elimination. Vaccine 2012; 30: 4073-4078.
2. World Health Organization. The immunological basis for immunisation series. Module 11: rubella. Geneva: WHO, 2008.
3. Gidding HF, Burgess MA, Kempe AE. A short history of vaccination in Australia. Med J Aust 2001; 174: 37-40.

Online responses are no longer available. Please refer to our instructions for authors page for more information.