World Health Organization cites the success of Nepal’s immunisation campaigns and disease-surveillance programme.

Nepal has eliminated rubella as a public health problem, the World Health Organization said on Monday, citing the success of ...

Nepal has successfully eliminated rubella as a public health problem, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which ...

Strategies such as promoting “immunisation month”, outreach to unvaccinated children, and efforts to have districts declared ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Monday that Nepal has successfully eradicated rubella as a public health ...

State's immunization compliance fell to 88% last year as more families seek exemptions from school-required vaccines, ...

The WHO has announced that Nepal has officially eliminated rubella as a public health problem. India may not be far behind.

Nepal will continue administering the rubella vaccine as part of its routine immunisation programme, even though the country ...

Elsa Sjunneson-Henry was born with disabilities caused by Congenital Rubella Syndrome after her mother was exposed to German measles (before even realizing she was pregnant). Sjunneson-Henry ...

Rubella is particularly dangerous to women of childbearing age. “I think the parents who don’t give the vaccine to their children are making a big mistake for unfound reasons,” Plotkin says.

Across the world, 120,000 children continue to be born with severe birth defects from the disease, including 43 cases of congenital rubella syndrome from among Japan's 15,000 cases of rubella in 2013.