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* '''Rubella and congenital rubella syndrome control and elimination - global progress, 2000-2012'''<ref name=PMID24304830><pubmed>24304830</pubmed>| [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6248a3.htm MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep.]</ref>  "Rubella virus usually causes a mild fever and rash in children and adults. However, infection during pregnancy, especially during the first trimester, can result in miscarriage, stillbirth, or infants with congenital malformations, known as congenital rubella syndrome (CRS). In 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) updated guidance on the preferred strategy for introduction of rubella-containing vaccine (RCV) into national routine immunization schedules with an initial wide-age-range vaccination campaign that includes children aged 9 months-15 years. WHO also urged all member states to take the opportunity offered by accelerated measles control and elimination activities as a platform to introduce RCVs. The Global Measles and Rubella Strategic Plan (2012-2020) published by the Measles Rubella Initiative partners in 2012 and the Global Vaccine Action Plan endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2012 include milestones to eliminate rubella and CRS in two WHO regions by 2015, and eliminate rubella in five WHO regions by 2020. This report summarizes the global progress of rubella and CRS control and elimination during 2000-2012. As of December 2012, a total of 132 (68%) WHO member states had introduced RCV, a 33% increase from 99 member states in 2000. A total of 94,030 rubella cases were reported to WHO in 2012 from 174 member states, an 86% decrease from the 670,894 cases reported in 2000 from 102 member states."
* '''Results of the rubella elimination program in Catalonia (Spain), 2002-2011'''<ref><pubmed>23299566 </pubmed></ref> "Rubella is usually a mild disease with nonspecific symptoms, but can cause congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) when infection occurs during pregnancy. The objective of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity and positive predictive value of different data sources used for surveillance purposes in the Rubella Elimination Program of Catalonia between 2002 and 2011. The Urgent Notification to the Statutory Disease Reporting System, the Individualized Disease Reporting System, screening for other viruses included in the Measles Elimination Program, the Microbiological Reporting System and the Minimum Hospital Discharge Data were evaluated. 100 suspected cases of postnatal rubella and 6 suspected cases of CRS were detected. ... Most confirmed postnatal cases (25 cases, 48.1%) were in the 25-44 y age group followed by the 15-24 y age group (11 cases, 21.2%)."
* '''Results of the rubella elimination program in Catalonia (Spain), 2002-2011'''<ref><pubmed>23299566 </pubmed></ref> "Rubella is usually a mild disease with nonspecific symptoms, but can cause congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) when infection occurs during pregnancy. The objective of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity and positive predictive value of different data sources used for surveillance purposes in the Rubella Elimination Program of Catalonia between 2002 and 2011. The Urgent Notification to the Statutory Disease Reporting System, the Individualized Disease Reporting System, screening for other viruses included in the Measles Elimination Program, the Microbiological Reporting System and the Minimum Hospital Discharge Data were evaluated. 100 suspected cases of postnatal rubella and 6 suspected cases of CRS were detected. ... Most confirmed postnatal cases (25 cases, 48.1%) were in the 25-44 y age group followed by the 15-24 y age group (11 cases, 21.2%)."
* '''Controlling rubella and preventing congenital rubella syndrome – global progress, 2009''' <ref>No authors listed''' Controlling rubella and preventing congenital rubella syndrome – global progress, 2009''' Wkly Epidemiol Rec. 2010 Oct 15;85(42):413-8. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20949700 PMID20949700] | [http://www.who.int/wer/2010/wer8542.pdf PDF]</ref> "In 2009, a total of 121,344 rubella cases were reported to WHO from 167 countries, a 82% decrease from 2000"
* '''Controlling rubella and preventing congenital rubella syndrome – global progress, 2009''' <ref>No authors listed''' Controlling rubella and preventing congenital rubella syndrome – global progress, 2009''' Wkly Epidemiol Rec. 2010 Oct 15;85(42):413-8. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20949700 PMID20949700] | [http://www.who.int/wer/2010/wer8542.pdf PDF]</ref> "In 2009, a total of 121,344 rubella cases were reported to WHO from 167 countries, a 82% decrease from 2000"

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Introduction

Rubella Virus, transmission electron micrograph (Image: CDC USA)

Rubella virus (Latin, rubella = little red), also known as "German Measles" (due to early citation in German medical literature), infection during pregnancy can cause congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) with serious malformations of the developing fetus. The type and degree of abnormality relates to the time of maternal infection.

Rubella peaked in 1964 and 1965, when 12.5 million cases were reported (USA). As a result, 20,000 babies were born with birth defects, 6,200 babies were stillborn, and an estimated 5,000 births were aborted, both naturally and assisted. At that time no treatment by vaccination existed and this only became available in 1969. The disease was dangerous because in children it was almost unnoticable and pregnant women often did not know that they had been exposed. Initial vaccination strategies varied between countries, in the United States infants were first to be vaccinated, while in the United Kingdom adolescent girls were first to be vaccinated.

Children infected with rubella before birth (a condition known as congenital rubella) are at risk for the following: growth retardation; malformations of the heart, eyes, or brain; deafness; and liver, spleen, and bone marrow problems.

The complete genomic sequence of Rubella is now known.[1] Rubella is a 9755 bp single stranded RNA positive-strand virus with no DNA stage (Togaviridae; Rubivirus) encoding nonstructural protein, capsid protein, glycoproteins E1 and E2. (More? Rubella Genome)


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Historic Embryology - Viral 
1941 Rubella Cataracts | 1944 Rubella Defects

Some Recent Findings

  • Rubella and congenital rubella syndrome control and elimination - global progress, 2000-2012[2] "Rubella virus usually causes a mild fever and rash in children and adults. However, infection during pregnancy, especially during the first trimester, can result in miscarriage, stillbirth, or infants with congenital malformations, known as congenital rubella syndrome (CRS). In 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) updated guidance on the preferred strategy for introduction of rubella-containing vaccine (RCV) into national routine immunization schedules with an initial wide-age-range vaccination campaign that includes children aged 9 months-15 years. WHO also urged all member states to take the opportunity offered by accelerated measles control and elimination activities as a platform to introduce RCVs. The Global Measles and Rubella Strategic Plan (2012-2020) published by the Measles Rubella Initiative partners in 2012 and the Global Vaccine Action Plan endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2012 include milestones to eliminate rubella and CRS in two WHO regions by 2015, and eliminate rubella in five WHO regions by 2020. This report summarizes the global progress of rubella and CRS control and elimination during 2000-2012. As of December 2012, a total of 132 (68%) WHO member states had introduced RCV, a 33% increase from 99 member states in 2000. A total of 94,030 rubella cases were reported to WHO in 2012 from 174 member states, an 86% decrease from the 670,894 cases reported in 2000 from 102 member states."
  • Results of the rubella elimination program in Catalonia (Spain), 2002-2011[3] "Rubella is usually a mild disease with nonspecific symptoms, but can cause congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) when infection occurs during pregnancy. The objective of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity and positive predictive value of different data sources used for surveillance purposes in the Rubella Elimination Program of Catalonia between 2002 and 2011. The Urgent Notification to the Statutory Disease Reporting System, the Individualized Disease Reporting System, screening for other viruses included in the Measles Elimination Program, the Microbiological Reporting System and the Minimum Hospital Discharge Data were evaluated. 100 suspected cases of postnatal rubella and 6 suspected cases of CRS were detected. ... Most confirmed postnatal cases (25 cases, 48.1%) were in the 25-44 y age group followed by the 15-24 y age group (11 cases, 21.2%)."
  • Controlling rubella and preventing congenital rubella syndrome – global progress, 2009 [4] "In 2009, a total of 121,344 rubella cases were reported to WHO from 167 countries, a 82% decrease from 2000"
  • An update on cardiovascular malformations in congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) [5] "We searched the English literature from 1941 through 2008 to identify studies that used cardiac catheterization or echocardiography to evaluate the cardiovascular malformations in CRS. Although published studies of CVMs in CRS have in general reported patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) as the CVM phenotype most commonly associated with CRS, among CRS cases evaluated by catheterization, branch pulmonary artery stenosis was actually more common than PDA. Moreover, although the combination of branch pulmonary artery stenosis and PDA was more common than either branch pulmonary artery stenosis or PDA alone, isolated branch pulmonary artery stenosis was twice as common as isolated PDA. ...Among children with suspected CRS, clinical evaluations for the presence of cardiovascular malformations should include examinations for both branch pulmonary artery stenosis and PDA."

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Images

Rubella virus 01.jpg

This transmission electron micrograph (TEM) shows the presence of Rubella virus virions, as they were in the process of budding from the host cell surface to be freed into the host’s system. Inside the capsid lies the Rubella virus’ positive-sense single-stranded RNA ((+)ssRNA) genome. (Image: CDC)

Rubella virus 03.jpg

The spherical virions' icosahedral capsid is enclosed in the host cell membrane, budding and producing an enveloped virus particle. (Image: CDC)

WHO Rubella Information

  • Causative agent - Virus
  • Reservoir - Humans
  • Spread - Close respiratory contact and aerosolized droplets
  • Transmission period - A few days before to seven days after rash; up to one year of age in congenitally infected
  • Subclinical infection - Common
  • Duration of natural immunity - Lifelong
  • Risk factors for infection (for unvaccinated individuals) - Highly transmissible; crowding; low socioeconomic status
  • Case-fatality rate - Less than 0.1 percent (dependent on care)
  • Vaccine (number of doses); route - Rubella (one or two); subcutaneous
  • Vaccine efficacy - 95 percent (at 12 months and up)
  • Duration of immunity after primary series - Lifelong in most; presumed rare cases of waning immunity after one dose, not two
  • Schedule - First dose at 12 to 15 months; when given, a second dose with measles vaccine
  • Status as of the end of 2001 - 110 countries in 2003
  • Comments - Lower efficacy when maternal antibody present

The World Health Organization recommends that the combination measles-rubella or measles-mumps-rubella vaccines be introduced only after careful evaluation of public health priorities within each country and following the establishment of an adequate program for measles control as demonstrated by high coverage rates as part of a well-functioning childhood immunization program.

Sources: WHO 2002, 2004.

Rubella History

Norman Gregg (1892-1966)

1941

Norman Gregg (1892-1966) was a Sydney ophthalmologist who in 1941[6] identified the link between maternal rubella infection and developmental abnormalities (atypical congenital cataracts, congenital heart defects, infants small-for-gestational age) initially in his own practice. This had coincided with a rubella epidemic that occurred between 1940 to 1941.

1962

The rubella virus was initially isolated [7][8][9]

1969

United States first licensed live, attenuated rubella vaccines introduced.


USA rubella and congenital rubella syndrome cases.jpg

United States Elimination of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome, 1969-2004[10]

  1. 1969 - First official recommendations are published for the use of rubella vaccine. Vaccination is recommended for children aged 1 year to puberty.
  2. 1978 - Recommendations for vaccination are expanded to include adolescents and certain adults, particularly females.
  3. 1981 - Recommendations place increased emphasis on vaccination of susceptible persons in training and educational settings.
  4. 1984 - Recommendations are published for vaccination of workers in daycare centres, schools, colleges, companies, government offices, and industrial sites. Providers encouraged to conduct prenatal testing and postpartum vaccination of susceptible women. Recommendations for vaccination are expanded to include susceptible persons who travel abroad.
  5. 1990 - Recommendations include implementation of a new 2-dose schedule for measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.

Rubella and measles elimination in the Americas.jpg

Rubella and measles elimination in the Americas[11]

Congenital Rubella Syndrome Abnormalities

The following are some examples of abnormalities associated with Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS).

Vision

  • cataracts
  • micropthalmia
  • glaucoma
  • retinitis
Links: Vision Abnormalities | Vision Development

Hearing

  • sensorineural deafness
Links: Hearing Abnormalities | Hearing Development

Neural

  • mental retardation
  • meningoencephalitis
  • (rare) progressive rubella panencephalitis
  • microcephaly

Cardiovascular

  • patent ductus arteriosis
  • atrial septal defect
  • ventricular septal defect
  • peripheral pulmonic stenosis

Endocrine

  • insulin dependent diabetes mellitus
  • thyroiditis

Other Systems

  • general growth retardation
  • radiolucent bone disease
  • heptosplenomegaly
  • heamatologic abnormalities (thrombocytopenia, purpura)
  • pneumonitis

References

  1. <pubmed>2353453</pubmed>
  2. <pubmed>24304830</pubmed>| MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep.
  3. <pubmed>23299566 </pubmed>
  4. No authors listed Controlling rubella and preventing congenital rubella syndrome – global progress, 2009 Wkly Epidemiol Rec. 2010 Oct 15;85(42):413-8. PMID20949700 | PDF
  5. <pubmed>19697432</pubmed>
  6. Gregg N. McA. Congenital cataract following German measles in the mother. Trans Ophthalmol Soc Aust 1941;3:35–46. | <pubmed>1879476</pubmed>| PMC2272051
  7. Weller, T. H., and Neva, F. A. Propagation in tissue culture of cytopathic agents from patients with rubella-like illnes . Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. 111:215–225, 1962.
  8. <pubmed>13941530</pubmed>| see PMC1926918
  9. <pubmed>14122801</pubmed>
  10. Elimination of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome--United States, 1969-2004. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2005 Mar 25;54(11):279-82. PMID 15788995 | MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep.
  11. Progress Report: Elimination of Rubella and CRS in the Americas, 2007 Powerpoint slide on Elimination of Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome in the Americas: Progress Report. Pan American Health Organization World Health Organization.

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<pubmed>21108356</pubmed> <pubmed>21116802</pubmed> <pubmed>20861325</pubmed> <pubmed>20655079</pubmed> <pubmed>16998777</pubmed>| Clin Infect Dis.

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