Childhood vaccination rates for illnesses such as measles, mumps and rubella have dropped nationwide in recent years. Health experts worry that the dropping vaccination rates put more communities at ...

Measles cases are rising in the U.S. with infections confirmed in at least five states this year, and primarily spreading among unvaccinated people.

Discover how the MMR vaccine prevents measles, mumps, and rubella. Learn who should get it and when, and why a myth persists ...

Since 1941, when Gregg first described the triad of deafness, cataracts and cardiac disease as the classical clinical manifestations of congenital rubella syndrome (CRS), strong efforts have been ...

Health officials have confirmed the first reported case of rubella in Minnesota since 2000. The illness was reported in a woman in her thirties from the Twin City metro area. According to ...

“After Kennedy got through, the Republicans who voted for him broke into a rousing chorus of ‘For He’s a Jolly Rubella.’” That joke was of course a reference to just one of the dangerous ...

Lubbock Public Health will offer measles vaccine clinics amid growing measles cases in West Texas. Here are the details.

June 27, 2024 — What happens when measles virus meets a human cell? The viral machinery unfolds in just the right way to reveal key pieces that let it fuse itself into the host cell ..

A survey finds that many pediatricians in Japan are struggling with shortages of a combined measles and rubella vaccine.

Immunity gaps created during the Covid pandemic are thought to have led to a spike in rubella cases in 2024. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has seen an increase in rubella ...

The MMR vaccine is a powerful tool to prevent three highly contagious viral diseases: measles, mumps, and rubella (German measles). Thanks to the MMR vaccine, introduced in 1963, these serious ...