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

In the 1960s, scientists created a rubella vaccine with a virus grown from human fetal cells. Those cells were taken from a fetus involved in an elective abortion in Sweden at the time.

The virus is contagious even without a rash, and pregnancy-related rubella can cause significant fetal harm, with a 20% chance of damage if contracted early in pregnancy.

If children are not vaccinated against rubella, and never come into contact with rubella virus through natural infection, children will remain susceptible to rubella,“ he said.

Computer illustration of the Rubella virus, commonly known as German measles. Picture: AFP CAPE TOWN - The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has confirmed a rubella, commonly ...

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.

A positive rubella IgG test indicates immunity to rubella, meaning that the pregnant person and the fetus cannot contract this virus. If a person contracts rubella, also known as German measles ...

The more we do this, the elimination of rubella as a virus on this planet is entirely feasible," Ferrari said. Tenley Brownwright, a postdoctoral scholar in biology at Penn State also contributed ...

Dr. Paul D. Parkman, whose research was instrumental in identifying the virus that causes rubella, died May 7 at his home in Auburn, New York. He was 91.

Dr. Paul D. Parkman, right, and Dr. Harry M. Meyer Jr. inspecting a culture of the rubella virus in 1967. Working with a team of researchers, they created a vaccine for the disease.

Dr. Paul Parkman, a Weedsport native whose isolation of the rubella virus led to the development of a vaccine that eliminated the infection in the U.S., died May 7. He was 91. Parkman was born in ...

Paul D. Parkman, a scientist who in the 1960s played a central role in identifying the rubella virus and developing a vaccine to combat it, breakthroughs that have eliminated from much of the ...