Rubella

Also called: German measles, Three day measles
Rubella is an illness with flu-like symptoms followed by a rash. Common symptoms include
Low-grade fever
Headache
Runny nose
Red eyes
Muscle or joint pain
Rubella is usually mild. You may get it and not even know it. However, adults who get rubella often feel sicker than children do. The biggest danger of rubella is if a woman gets it during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. She may lose the baby, or the virus could cause problems to her unborn baby. Those problems could include cataracts, deafness or damage to the heart or brain.
A virus causes rubella. It can spread from one person to another through the air or through close contact with someone who has it. There is no treatment for rubella, but the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine can prevent it.
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Rubella(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
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Rubella: Make Sure Your Child Is Fully Immunized(02/02/2009, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
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Current Vaccine Shortages and Delays(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccines (MMR)(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - Links to PDF
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Rubella Test(American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
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Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) Vaccine(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Return to top
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ClinicalTrials.gov: Rubella(National Institutes of Health) Return to top
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Article: Autism and vaccinations: is there a correlation?
Article: Seroprevalence of antibodies to measles, mumps, and rubella among Thai...
Article: Progress toward measles elimination--European Region, 2005--2008.
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Congenital rubella syndrome -- see more articles Return to top
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FASTATS: Measles(National Center for Health Statistics) Return to top
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German Measles (Rubella)(Logical Images)
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Rubella(March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
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Facts about Rubella for Adults(National Foundation for Infectious Diseases) - Links to PDF Return to top
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Date last updated: 02 March 2009 Topic last reviewed: 04 March 2009