To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the number of cases of congenial toxoplasmosis recorded in Scotland as a fraction of total pregnancies for each year since 1979; and if he will make a statement.
The information, which has been derived from returns to the Scottish National Toxoplasma Reference Laboratory, is as follows:
Year
| Confirmed cases
| Cases where evidence is suggestive
| Total
| Pregnancies1
| Total cases per 100,000 pregnancies
|
| 1989 | — | 2 | 2 | 62,985 | 3·2 |
| 1990 | — | — | — | 262,750 | — |
1 These figures relate to pregnancies which have gone to full term | |||||
2 Provisional | |||||
The Health Education Board for Scotland will shortly be issuing a leaflet giving advice on the avoidance of infections such as toxoplasmosis during pregnancy.