Rubella in Biological News

Congenital rubella syndrome nearly eradicated in the US

... Congenital rubella syndrome, a birth defect caused by the rubella virus (also known as German measles), has ... Toxicology Society, the statement notes that rubella is no longer an endemic disease in this country ...

Birth defects: 8 million annually worldwide

... syndrome, iodine deficiency disorder, congenital rubella syndrome, and congenital syphilis were not ... to prevent severe congenital hypothyroidism; and rubella immunization to prevent congenital rubella syndrome. Recommendations in the report with ...

Innovative method for creating a human cytomegalovirus vaccine outlined

... who during his career at the Institute between 1960 and 1991 developed the rubella vaccine that eradicated the disease in the U.S. and co-developed a new ... was to attenuate, or weaken, human CMV, as he had done to create the rubella vaccine. In contrast, the rotavirus vaccine was developed using ...

When nerve cells can't make contact

... as the cause for autism. However, the "refrigerator mom" theory has now been refuted. The belief widely held in the 1990s that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine could cause autism in small children has no scientific basis at all. Today, it is clear that genetic factors are the major cause of the ...

New Rotavirus vaccine joins routine infant immunization schedule

... a former director of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital, developed a number of previous vaccines, including the vaccine that has eradicated rubella (German measles) in the United States. "This vaccine against a major childhood killer will impact the lives of children around the world," said ...

Fragile US vaccine system needs improvement despite dramatic gains in health over past century

... to the major reductions in illness during the twentieth century from smallpox, diphtheria, measles, mumps, pertussis, polio, rubella, congenital rubella syndrome, tetanus, and H. influenzae, type b (in children less than 5 years old), new vaccines in the past 10 years for varicella (chickenpox), ...