1969 Volume 42 Issue 12 Pages 337-342
From the middle of May to the end of July in 1967, an outbreak of rubella occurred among soldieres of the Japanese Ground Self-Defence Ft: Ames (JGSDF) at the Camp of OHtsu in Ohtsu city.
One _hundred cases were, diagnosed clinically as rubella and isolated for medical cares. The cases occurred mostly among newly-enlisted soldiers of the Camp and the ages of the cases mostly ranged from 18 to 20 years age.
Clinical features are generally mild, and characterized by typical rash of rubella, but 40 per cent of the cases are afebrile.
Any epidemic was not reported around ohtsu city in relation to this outbreak of rubella in JGSDF. From the above-mentioned results, this disease in JGSDF shall be called as a so-called recruit disaese.
