Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . According to the CDC, rubella was eliminated in the United States in 2004. However, international travel can ...

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 ...

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

Introduction: The Evidence for the Elimination of Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome in the United States: A Public Health Achievement Introduction: The Evidence for the Elimination of Rubella ...

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 ...

Dear P.S.: I am very sorry to hear about it, even so many years later. Having a child with major health issues is an immense strain on a family. Measles (rubeola) certainly is very dangerous for ...

At present 40 per cent of congenital deafness is inexplicable. The effect of rubella on the frequency of congenital deafness was studied five years after an epidemic of rubella in an island population ...

A team of researchers, including two from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has solved a long-running biological mystery, reporting the discovery of the first two viral relatives of rubella, also ...

Rubella and CRS case surveillance has been obligatory in Costa Rica since 1983 and is based on the clinical suspicion of any febrile eruptive disease case, which is then followed by a diagnostic ...