Recently, there have been rumors of Die Mennonitische Post being “mainstream media.” John Dueck, the editor, covers the facts ...

As vaccination rates among children continue to plummet, concerns are rising over the potential for infectious disease to spread rampantly.

For decades, one of the world’s most contagious diseases was considered eradicated in the U.S. But now measles is roaring ...

I read a recent column of yours in which you said that everyone my age can assume we’ve had measles. I remember having ...

German measles (rubella), as most adults know it, is a pipsqueak disease which produces only a rash and a mild fever. But if pregnant women catch it, it can give their unborn babies heart disease, ...

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick health officials say there are three confirmed and five probable cases of measles in the ...

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 ...

The rubella virus is the infectious agent for German measles. Estimates are that 25-50% of infected folks don’t ever have symptoms. The disease produced is mostly mild with an initial sore ...

German Measles. This mild infection can have grave results during pregnancy. In 1964 an epidemic in the U.S. caused defects in 20,000 infants.

Read before the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, March 27, 1893. Rötheln was the name originally used in Germany, and because it was first described in that country, it was called German ...

To the children and adults who catch it, German measles (rubella) is almost invariably a trivial infection with slight fever, sore throat and fast-disappearing rash. But contracted by a woman ...