During the last three decades, the surveillance system of rubella in Costa Rica was modified in response to the strategies of measles eradication. An integrated surveillance system of febrile eruptive ...

The diagnosis of rubella can be made by isolating the virus from the nasopharynx or by means of a positive antibody titer. Elevated rubella immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibody indicates current rubella ...

(NewsNation) — With outbreaks of previously eradicated measles leading the news for months, more epidemics may be in store for the U.S. As vaccination rates among children continue to plummet, ...

Kathmandu, Aug. 18 -- Nepal has eliminated rubella, a highly contagious viral disease as a public health problem, the World Health Organisation, announced on Monday. The UN health body in its ...

Rubella antibodies in the blood mean that a person’s immune system has developed a response to the rubella virus. A positive result for rubella immunoglobulin (IgG) antibodies means a person is immune ...

Measles is caused by a ssRNA virus belonging to the Paramyxoviridae family, genus Morbillivirus. It has an incubation period of approximately 10–12 days, and clinical disease begins with symptoms of ...

The 1963-65 U.S. epidemic of rubella, or German measles, was a national disaster. Rubella virus is as deadly as thalidomide for the unborn, and the epidemic left an estimated 30,000 babies marred for ...

Every day, my family lives with the impact of a disease that most Americans have largely forgotten: Rubella. My adult son’s birth mother had rubella during her pregnancy. Thanks to widespread ...