Rubella

Rubella: Symptoms, Pregnancy Risk and MMR Vaccine Rubella, popularly known as “German measles”, is an apparently mild viral disease that generations of children went through without major consequences. Many grandmothers remembered that “rubella passed like a breeze”: a few days of fever, a pale rash, and slightly swollen lymph nodes behind the neck. That was all. This is why it was considered less dangerous than measles or chickenpox, and in rural communities it was often ignored. ...