MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) on Friday said it is investigating and closely monitoring the case of a ...

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — The Mandaue City Health Office has reached 37 percent measles-rubella vaccination coverage based on its ...

Nepal has reached a remarkable milestone: the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially declared that rubella has been eliminated as a public health problem in Nepal. This achievement reflects ...

Rubella poses a risk to pregnancy, including miscarriage and congenital abnormalities. Because of this, a person should get tested for rubella immunity before becoming pregnant. In the United States, ...

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. Now ...

Using advanced genetic sequencing technology and analysis, vaccine researchers have identified 27 genes that respond in very different ways to the standard rubella vaccine, making the vaccine less ...

Nine days after the launch of the goverment’s supplemental vaccination program against measles and rubella in Luzon, 362,793 ...

Rubella, also known as German measles, is an acute viral infection that usually affects children and young adults. It is a contagious condition that can be transmitted between humans via airborne ...

Paul D. Parkman, a scientist who in the 1960s played a central role in identifying the rubella virus and developing a vaccine to combat it, breakthroughs that have eliminated from much of the world a ...

One side of the bedroom is an explosion of pink, from the hair accessories and dangling trinkets to the stuffed animals and laundry hamper. The other, starting with the fuzzy pillows and puffy ...

DURING the winter and spring of 1964 the United States experienced the largest epidemic of rubella recorded during the past twenty years. 1 In Connecticut over 40,000 cases were reported to the State ...