Category: CRS

Rubella and CRS Elimination: A Race Worth Winning

AEFI Management Kit. Photo credit: Rania Tohme/CDC More than 100,000 children worldwide are born with congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) every year to mothers infected with the rubella virus. Sadly, these children will suffer a lifetime because of birth defects such as blindness, deafness, and heart disease, even though a cost-effective vaccine is widely available to Read More >

November 17, 2017 by Susan Reef, MD, MPH, Medical Epidemiologist and Rubella Team Lead, Global Immunization Division & Gavin Grant, MD, MPH, Medical Epidemiologist, Global Immunization Division

Archive, congenital rubella syndrome, CRS, Global Vaccine Action Plan, Rubella

congenital rubella syndrome, CRS, Global Vaccine Action Plan, rubella

Working Towards an Achievable Goal: A World without CRS

When I started focusing on rubella in 1994, it was mainly recognized as a significant public health problem in high-income countries. When the public health community realized that rubella and congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) were actually significant public health issues in the entire region of the Americas, things took a turn and an elimination goal Read More >

February 13, 2015 by Susan Reef, MD, Rubella Team Lead, Global Immunization Division

Archive, immunization, infectious disease, rubella

Americas, CRS, rubella, Vaccines