THE health education caravan at the Newcastle Summer Exhibi tion was used as a venue to offer rubella antibody screening.
A true cross-section of the fer tile female population had the test performed and showed an immunity rate of 82%.
Of those proved to be suscept ible, there was only limited com pliance with the suggestion that immunisation should be sought from their GP.
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