article_snippet: More than 1,500 airline passengers may have been exposed to rubella, after an air stewardess unknowingly contracted disease.
article_snippet: China Airline's flight attendant began developing symptoms for the disease - also known as German measles - on March 14.
article_snippet: Four days later, doctors confirmed China Airline's flight attendant had German measles and was placed in quarantine, the People's Daily Online reported.
article_snippet: The air stewardess on the China Airlines flight (not pictured) contracted disease in February .
article_snippet: But the woman, from northern Taiwan, may have infected a number of people during the incubation period - including passengers on the flights.
article_snippet: German measles is one of a number of similar viral infections that children commonly pick up at school.
article_snippet: Rubella - sometimes known as German measles - can cause serious damage to a developing baby if caught by a pregnant woman so it is important to keep an infected child away from pregnant women.
highlights_snippet: China Airline's flight attendant diagnosed with disease this month .
  
highlights_snippet: But may have exposed 1,558 passengers to German measles in February .
  