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 ...

The number of rubella infections is rising in India. Rubella infection is transmitted from a pregnant woman to foetus, thus resulting in babies born with various diseases. It is a contagious, but ...

THE observation of a newborn infant with widespread petechiae and thrombocytopenia born to a mother who had had rubella during the 1964 epidemic stimulated us to seek other newborn and older children ...

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 2006 ...

Rubella is mostly a medical curiosity in the developed world today. Vaccines have eradicated the virus in the Western Hemisphere, and many doctors have never seen the disease outside of textbooks. Now ...

THE CASE: In January 2004 a female infant was delivered by cesarean section at 36 weeks' gestation because of severe intrauterine growth restriction. The mother was a healthy 31-year-old gravida 4 ...

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 ...

KARACHI: Fourteen infants have been diagnosed with congenital rubella syndrome in a study being conducted at the National Institute of Child Health (NICH) in collaboration with the National Institute ...

It is a virus that can spell disaster for a pregnant woman. It causes miscarriages or a fate many people view as far worse: congenital malformations of the newborn. It swept the globe. No, I am not ...

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