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The U.S. is having its worst year for measles spread in more than three decades, with a total of 1,288 cases nationally and ...
In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...
The purpose of this paper is to report specific rubella-virus hemagglutination and the development of a hemagglutination-inhibition test for antibody assay.
Measles — one of the world’s most contagious diseases — was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, due to widespread use of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine.
This report discusses the accomplishments of the rubella vaccination program in Costa Rica and the challenges posed by rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in the future.
Personal Perspective: A forgotten virus changed my son's life forever; now, dropping vaccination rates may bring it back. Science, not fear, must guide our choices.
Rubella, rubeola, and roseola are different viral infections that cause symptoms, such as rashes and fever. However, they have unique characteristics and causes. Read more.
Discover how the MMR vaccine prevents measles, mumps, and rubella. Learn who should get it and when, and why a myth persists linking the vaccine to autism.
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 Stat ...
Discover how the MMR vaccine prevents measles, mumps, and rubella. Learn who should get it and when, and why a myth persists linking the vaccine to autism.
In Africa, rubella is a public-health problem, both in epidemiological and economical terms, because the virus circulation and the burden of disease have been poorly described and African ...