Does rubella vaccination prevent congenital rubella syndrome?
(Scroll down for article) FREEDOM OF CHOICE IS NOT FREE Vaccination News, A Non-Profit Corporation Picks of the Day Archives All the News (includes Breaking News) – a running tab of everything posted on this website since October 29, 2003 Other archives Return to Vaccination News Home Page (for best results, right click to “open in new window”) View past & current Scandals (columns by Sandy Gottstein aka Mintz) Subscribe to Scandals Search This Site using keywords click here to download Adobe Reader Scandals – 07/19/02 Does rubella vaccination prevent congenital rubella syndrome? Vaccination is known to result in a subclinical or mild case of the disease for which one is being vaccinated against. Rubella (German measles) is a disease for which there is a widely used vaccine. (It is generally administered via the MMR vaccine.) It is, in itself, a mild, often even subclinical disease. The reason it is recommended/mandated is to protect the developing fetus, which if it is exposed to the