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    Rubella vaccine is a vaccine used to prevent rubella. Effectiveness begins about two weeks after a single dose and around 95% of people become immune....
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    The MMR vaccine is a vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella (German measles), abbreviated as MMR. The first dose is generally given to children around...
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    Rubella, also known as German measles or three-day measles, is an infection caused by the rubella virus. This disease is often mild, with half of people...
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  • vaccine combines the attenuated virus MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine with the addition of the varicella (chickenpox) vaccine. The MMRV vaccine...
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    The vaccine is available both by itself and in combinations such as the MMR vaccine (a combination with the rubella vaccine and mumps vaccine) or the...
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  • Common examples of live attenuated vaccines are measles, mumps, rubella, yellow fever, and some influenza vaccines. Viruses may be attenuated using the...
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    at preventing congenital rubella syndrome. With the introduction of the rubella vaccine in 1969, the number of cases of rubella in the United States has...
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    combination with measles and rubella vaccine known as MMR. A formulation with the previous three and the varicella (chickenpox) vaccine known as MMRV is also...
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  • 1 million schoolchildren in England aged 5–16 years received measles and rubella (MR) vaccine. In April 1994, Richard Barr, a solicitor, succeeded in winning legal...
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    governments. In the 1960s, he played a pivotal role in discovery of a vaccine against rubella virus while working at Wistar Institute in Philadelphia. Plotkin...
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