Falling vaccination rates could lead to the return of previously eliminated diseases, and many more people will be at risk of ...

At least 3.5 million children across Kenya have so far received the newly introduced Measles-Rubella (MR) vaccine since the national immunisation campaign began on July 5. In a statement released on ...

Rubella is particularly dangerous to women of childbearing age. “I think the parents who don’t give the vaccine to their children are making a big mistake for unfound reasons,” Plotkin says.

Rubella virus was detected in the patient’s urine by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing, but a nasopharyngeal swab was negative. Rubella was diagnosed, and public health was ...

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Across the world, 120,000 children continue to be born with severe birth defects from the disease, including 43 cases of congenital rubella syndrome from among Japan's 15,000 cases of rubella in 2013.

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

Elsa Sjunneson-Henry was born with disabilities caused by Congenital Rubella Syndrome after her mother was exposed to German measles (before even realizing she was pregnant). Sjunneson-Henry ...

Rubella is mostly a medical curiosity in the developed world today. Vaccines have eradicated the virus in the Western Hemisphere, and many doctors have never seen the disease outside of textbooks ...