rubella
风疹,德国风疹,德鲁巴风疹,疹
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Pathology.
- : a usually mild contagious viral disease characterized by fever, mild upper respiratory congestion, and a fine red rash lasting a few days: if contracted by a woman during early pregnancy, it may cause serious damage to the fetus.
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They had a pretty bad resistance coming from some of the local Muslim leaders in an MR, measles rubella campaign, a few years ago, and it really undermined acceptance and totally disrupted this nationwide effort.
No safety steps were skipped, says Stanley Plotkin, emeritus professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania, who is perhaps best known for his work developing the rubella vaccine.
Its universal immunization program, against diseases like measles, rubella, and tuberculosis, is among the most robust in the world, with the drive against polio often cited as a success.
In some parts of Italy, vaccine coverage was very low, not only for measles, mumps, and rubella but also for polio—not even reaching 80 percent in some areas, which is unbelievable.
In this case, proteins found in pneumococcal vaccines and, to a lesser degree, ones found in Hib and rubella vaccines as well look like several proteins produced by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
This happens, for instance, in one out of five vaccinations against rubella.
From 1962-1965, there was a worldwide epidemic of rubella, the so-called “German measles.”
It is currently administered as one of the components of the MMR vaccine (along with measles and rubella).
So too with rubella: the U.S. was certified as rubella-free in 2004, meaning that no cases were seen in persons residing here.
Thus the infants likely exposed countless health-care workers to large amounts of rubella virus.
German measles, or rubella, is a distinct disease and has nothing to do with ordinary measles.