Rubella A benign, self-limited viral illness, rubella is characterized by an exanthem and posterior cervical lymphadenopathy. Much of its significant morbidity is secondary to the effects of the ...

T wo medical researchers working for the U.S. Public Health Service announced last week that they had developed a vaccine against German measles (rubella) that appears, from the first test results ...

Research confirms that maternal rubella infection in the first trimester leads to Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS), causing cataracts, heart defects, hearing impairments, and intellectual ...

Research has established that maternal rubella infection during the first trimester leads to Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS), which manifests in newborns as cataracts, heart defects, hearing ...

Rubella is typically mild in adults and children but can cause serious birth defects in pregnant women, including deafness, cataracts, heart defects, mental deficiency and liver or spleen damage ...

If a woman gets German measles (rubella) in the first three months of pregnancy, or even during the four weeks before conception, there is grave danger that her baby will be born with severe ...

Rubella, a fairly mild childhood disease, was not considered a particularly dangerous foe until 1941 when an Australian ophthalmologist, Norman Gregg, discovered a link between the incidence of ...

Rubella infection during pregnancy often gives rise to CRS, which can result in miscarriage, stillbirth or fetal malformations, including congenital heart disease, cataracts, deafness and intellectual ...

Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Infant with congenital rubella infection. Congenital infection with the rubella virus can affect all organs. This can cause deafness, cataracts ...

Several manifestations of congenital rubella have been added to the cataracts and heart defects described by Gregg 1 in 1941, but purpura has not been a conspicuous feature until recently. In a ...

Rubella a risk to pregnant woman, warns expert Updated Aug. 31, 2024, 2:56 p.m. | By Noxolo Miya ...

A congenital cataract develops during childhood or before birth. Various causes can cause them, including genetic predispositions, infections during pregnancy (such as rubella), and metabolic ...