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Did rubella ever cause an epidemic?


Did rubella ever cause an epidemic?

There have been plenty of outbreaks of rubella (German measles) throughout history. It's one of those childhood diseases that used to go through villages quickly. However, has there ever been a large scale pandemic of rubella that killed or maimed a lot of people? No. Nonetheless, you can thank MMR vaccines for cutting incidence of this disease to almost nothing.

And you can thank the anti-vaccine nutjobs to for not giving their kids MMR and causing the number of cases to rise again.

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