Falling vaccination rates could lead to the return of previously eliminated diseases, and many more people will be at risk of ...

Cases are rising in the U.S., but the CDC says most people who bring measles into the U.S. are unvaccinated residents who ...

I read a recent column of yours in which you said that everyone my age can assume we’ve had measles. I remember having ...

Rubella is particularly dangerous to women of childbearing age. “I think the parents who don’t give the vaccine to their children are making a big mistake for unfound reasons,” Plotkin says.

The purpose of this paper is to report specific rubella-virus hemagglutination and the development of a hemagglutination-inhibition test for antibody assay. The WI-2 line of baby-hamster-kidney ...

Physicians who champion immunization sustain herd immunity, reducing the incidence of severe diseases, hospitalizations, and ...

Across the world, 120,000 children continue to be born with severe birth defects from the disease, including 43 cases of congenital rubella syndrome from among Japan's 15,000 cases of rubella in 2013.

Elsa Sjunneson-Henry was born with disabilities caused by Congenital Rubella Syndrome after her mother was exposed to German measles (before even realizing she was pregnant). Sjunneson-Henry ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...