Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1904 — Epidemic of German Measles. [ARTICLE]

Epidemic of German Measles.

German measles, a disease heretofore seldom heard of in this region, now prevails in the Valina school region, in Barkley township. Miss Alice McLaughlin has it and the school is closed, Iu all there are five cases. The eruption looks almost exactly like common measles, but tho disease itself is not so severe ns oonynou measles Having had the last named disease is no protection against the German article, and every one "of the five now Bick have previously had common measles.