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What is rubella?

What causes rubella?

What are the symptoms of rubella?

How is rubella prevented?

Who should get the MMR vaccine?

Where can I buy home test kits for contributing factors of this condition?

What is rubella? (top)

Rubella, also called German measles, is a respiratory disease caused by a virus.
 

What causes rubella? (top)

Rubella is caused by a virus that is spread from person to person when an infected person coughs or sneezes. Rubella is also spread by direct contact with the nasal or throat secretions of an infected person. If a pregnant woman gets rubella during the first 3 months of pregnancy, her baby is at risk of having serious birth defects.
 

What are the symptoms of rubella? (top)

Symptoms of rubella may include;

• rash

• slight fever

• aching joints

• reddened eyes

The rash first appears on the face and spreads from head to toe. The lymph nodes just behind the ears and at the back of the neck may swell, causing soreness and pain. Many people with rubella have few or no symptoms, and up to half of the people who have the disease may not get a rash. In most cases of rubella, symptoms appear within 16 to 18 days after exposure.

How is rubella prevented? (top)

There is a safe and effective vaccine to protect against rubella. The vaccine is usually given to adults as part of a combination vaccine, called the MMR vaccine, that protects against measles, mumps and rubella. There is also a vaccine that protects against rubella only.
 

Who should get the MMR vaccine? (top)

• You are a college student, trade school student, or other student beyond high school

• You work in a hospital or other medical facility

• You travel internationally, or are a passenger on a cruise ship

• You are a woman of childbearing age

You do not the MMR vaccine if:

• You had blood tests that show you are immune to measles, mumps, and rubella.
  You are a man born before 1957.

• You are a woman born before 1957 who is sure she is not having more children, has already had rubella vaccine, or has had a positive rubella test.

• You already had two doses of MMR or one dose of MMR plus a second dose of measles vaccine.

• You already had one dose of MMR and are not at high risk of measles exposure.

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