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For decades, one of the world’s most contagious diseases was considered eradicated in the U.S. But today, 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 measles in the second grade but have a vague memory of my ...

Thousands of journalists, auto industry executives and others may have been exposed to rubella, or the German measles, in January at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, health ...

Rubella is sometimes called German measles. The CDC states rubella is no longer endemic, or constantly present, in the United States; however, it remains prevalent in other regions of the world.

"Rubella is more of an orphan virus because so few people work on it," said Roberto Cattaneo, a researcher and measles expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

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 ...

A Central Texas school district notified local families last week about a confirmed case of Rubella, also known as "German measles." A letter from Mexia ISD stated that a nurse within the district ...

No, I am not referring to Zika; I am referring to rubella. Rubella, or German measles, is, for almost everyone who contracts it, a mild viral disease.

The measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is ready to be given to a 1-year-old at the Shots for Tots vaccination clinic at St.

A medical worker holds a measles-rubella vaccine at a health station September 19, 2018. The virus is considered eliminated in the United States where most people are vaccinated but a case ...