More than 1,100 rubella cases have been reported this year in Japan, raising concern about serious health impacts on unborn babies who could be infected with the disease by their mothers during pregnancy, a national institute said Tuesday.The 1,103 cases so far in 2018 represent a nearly 12-fold jump from the entire previous year and also an increase of 135 in the first week of October from the previous week, according to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases.Mothers with children born with congenital rubella syndrome in the past are calling on people to get vaccinations as infectio…READ FULL ARTICLE
