As vaccination rates among children continue to plummet, concerns are rising over the potential for infectious disease to ...

Local chief executives in the province of Laguna are seeking the full participation of parents and guardians in having their ...

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 ...

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 ...

One side of the bedroom is an explosion of pink, from the hair accessories and dangling trinkets to the stuffed animals and laundry hamper. The other, starting with the fuzzy pillows and puffy ...

Using advanced genetic sequencing technology and analysis, vaccine researchers have identified 27 genes that respond in very different ways to the standard rubella vaccine, making the vaccine less ...

Rubella poses a risk to pregnancy, including miscarriage and congenital abnormalities. Because of this, a person should get tested for rubella immunity before becoming pregnant. In the United States, ...

More than half a century before the Zika virus grabbed international headlines and photos of newborns with abnormally small heads were splashed across our screens, a different outbreak that affected ...

At night in a Ugandan forest, a team of American and African scientists take oral swabs from insect-eating cyclops leaf-nosed bats. In a necropsy room near the Baltic Sea, researchers try to determine ...

Nepal has reached a remarkable milestone: the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially declared that rubella has been eliminated as a public health problem in Nepal. This achievement reflects ...

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 world a ...