“Vaccination for German Measles,” Merck & Co. Inc, Danbury, Connecticut, 1969
Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine
Afraid of the consequences of rubella, parents eagerly enrolled their children in the vaccination program. When it became available in June 1969, demand for the shot was immense. Public health professionals vaccinated almost 40 million children in the United States against rubella in just over four years.
