The government has issued new guidance for parents and carers of children to help them understand changes to the vaccination schedule ...

Rubella, a vaccine-preventable infection. This study examined the antibody status of 11987 pregnant women during 2005-2009. Results showed a non-significant decrease in those with antibody levels of ...

Just two of the 149 local authorities in England and Wales met the global targets for the second dose of vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella, NHS figures show. Overall, the proportion of children ...

Get our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysis Health minister Maria Caulfield said there has been a “gradual 10-year decline” in population coverage ...

A positive rubella IgG test indicates immunity to rubella, meaning that the pregnant person and the fetus cannot contract this virus. If a person contracts rubella, also known as German measles, ...

Rubella antibodies in the blood mean that a person’s immune system has developed a response to the rubella virus. A positive result for rubella immunoglobulin (IgG) antibodies means a person is immune ...

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 cells ...