With measles cases increasing in the U.S., including two recent brushes of the disease in Utah, health officials want to ...

The MMR vaccine is a powerful tool to prevent three highly contagious viral diseases: measles, mumps, and rubella (German measles). Thanks to the MMR vaccine, introduced in 1963, these serious ...

Rubella, rubeola, and roseola are distinct viral infections that cause characteristic rashes. However, they also have unique characteristics and causes. Rubella, rubeola, and roseola are viral ...

Since 1941, when Gregg first described the triad of deafness, cataracts and cardiac disease as the classical clinical manifestations of congenital rubella syndrome (CRS), strong efforts have been ...

Mumps is spread from person to person through airborne droplets. Rubella is a virus that is very dangerous to the developing baby in pregnant women. If a woman gets rubella while she is pregnant, she ...

Background: Most cases of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) occur in low- and middle-income countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently recommended that countries ...

MEXIA, Texas — The Mexia ISD superintendent Ryder Appleton said Thursday night that what was initially reported as a case of measles in the district was instead rubella. Earlier in the afternoon ...

A Central Texas school district notified local families last week about a confirmed case of Rubella, also known as "German measles." A letter from Mexia ISD stated that a nurse within the district ...

A positive rubella IgG test indicates immunity to rubella, meaning that the pregnant person and the fetus cannot contract this virus. If a person contracts rubella, also known as German measles ...

Provincial health departments have assured South Africans that the Rubella outbreak across the country will not be the Grinch that steals Christmas. They have however urged the public to present ...