Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . According to the CDC, rubella was eliminated in the United States in 2004. However, international travel can ...

Dear P.S.: I am very sorry to hear about it, even so many years later. Having a child with major health issues is an immense strain on a family. Measles (rubeola) certainly is very dangerous for ...

Congenital rubella syndrome, a birth defect caused by the rubella virus (also known as German measles), has practically been eliminated in the U.S., according to a statement published in the April ...

Rubella and CRS case surveillance has been obligatory in Costa Rica since 1983 and is based on the clinical suspicion of any febrile eruptive disease case, which is then followed by a diagnostic ...

At present 40 per cent of congenital deafness is inexplicable. The effect of rubella on the frequency of congenital deafness was studied five years after an epidemic of rubella in an island population ...

THE syndrome of congenital rubella has been expanded to include such manifestations as neonatal thrombocytopenia, hepatosplenomegaly and regurgitative jaundice, interstitial pneumonitis and bone ...

A team of researchers, including two from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has solved a long-running biological mystery, reporting the discovery of the first two viral relatives of rubella, also ...

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 ...