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

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.

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

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 ...

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

Twenty cases of the rubella syndrome were studied. The mothers of 16 of the infants gave a history of rubella during pregnancy, in all cases during the first trimester.

Cite this: Congenital Rubella Syndrome: Progress and Future Challenges - Medscape - Mar 01, 2009. Abstract and Introduction World Strategies of Rubella Vaccination ...

The discovery of the two rubella relatives may also aid efforts to develop a treatment for more than 100,000 babies around the world stricken each year with congenital rubella syndrome.

In a review of all cases of infants with congenital rubella syndrome in the United States reported to the National Congenital Rubella Syndrome Registry from 1997 to 1999, 83% (20/24) were born to ...

Rubella is a reportable disease, and contact tracing should be done with the involvement of public health for exposed individuals, particularly pregnant women. Footnotes. Competing interests: None ...

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 ...