The Department of Health urged parents and caregivers to ensure children are up to date with vaccination schedule against serious diseases that are prevented by vaccines as the country is experiencing an increase in rubella (otherwise known as German measles) cases in some provinces. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has alerted the Department of notable rising number of rubella cases in various parts of Gauteng, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. To tell us more about this, I am joined on the line by…

GUEST: Dr Kerrigan McCarthy, a pathologist at the Centre for Vaccines and Immunology at the NICD