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 ...

were almost a rite of growing up until the measles, mumps and rubella (German measles), or MMR, vaccine was developed a few years later. Published reports state that 2.6 million measles deaths ...

Two medical researchers working for the U.S. Public Health Service announced last week that they had developed a vaccine against German measles (rubella) that appears, from the first test results ...

Spring 1964 is the best of times for a German measles party. The rules call for lots of kissing games in an unventilated room, so that all the little boys and, more especially, all the little ...

The vaccine also offers protection against mumps and rubella, otherwise known as the German measles, two other things that you’d be better off not getting. The first MMR shot usually occurs in ...

Much of the outbreak is concentrated in the districts of Texas House leaders, including Speaker Dustin Burrows. The crisis appears to have done little to change support for “vaccine choice.” ...

Measles cases have surpassed 1,000 in Ontario and 137 in Alberta. Why is the response so seemingly indifferent?

"We would absolutely not take the MMR," the mother said through a translator of Low German. "The measles wasn't that bad, and they got over it pretty quickly," she added, speaking of her four ...

On Feb. 26, Rockwall County confirmed the first case of measles in an unvaccinated adult resident. That same day, Mexia ISD in Limestone County reported one case of German measles, also known as ...

I mean, there are other illnesses that look like measles, and I don't know that they would have done any specific testing. So it's very possibly he had something else. Okay. He had German measles.