Talk:Rubella

message: What about some information on why it is sometimes called "German" measles?  anon
:Well, you can research this question yourself and add it to the article! JFW | T@lk 14:02, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Liberty Measles?  Was this some sort of WWI/WWII thing, where everything German got renamed, like Liberty Cabbage? --talk to me crimes against humanity02:24, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The explanation for "German" differs between the English and Simple English pages. English says it actually has to do with Germany, while Simple English says it does not. English has several sources, though. Should the Simple English page be changed?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.181.156.194 (talk) 22:00, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. The text on the Simple English page is similar to that on this page a while back. I researched the name and concluded that the previous text was a result of improbable folk etymology. Colin°Talk 22:08, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: What

message: I have redirected rose rash here.  IF I'm wrong please fixit. Rich   Farmbrough 13:52, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: rose rash of infants appears to be Sixth disease. Rich   Farmbrough 14:00, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rosr-rash 

message: One of my vague early-childhood memories is of TV ads or program segments featuring "The Rubella Umbrella", part of some sort of nonprofit campaign to do something about this disease.  This would be around the late '60s or early '70s, in the New York area. *Dan T.* 17:55, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Rubella Umbrella 

message: Vodcaster Cali Lewis/Luria Petrucci (of GeekBrief.TV) was diagnosed with rubella recently, as is mentioned on her webpage.130.49.36.140 00:40, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right. The US has only eliminated native cases (last one was in 2000). Eradication is some way off. Colin°Talk 07:58, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rubella apparently not eradicated in the US 

message: I am adopting this important article. I checked the History to see if I need to tell a major contributor; but there does not seem to be one. My long term plan is to combine Rubella virus with this article. I know the virology of this subject quite well, but I will eventually need to call upon my Wiki project for medicine pals to provide input regarding the clinical, (ie. dealing with infected persons' worries).--GrahamColmTalk 21:59, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: *I wish all my long term plans were resolved so quickly! Glad you're tackling this short article. I did some research into the name "German measles" a while back, which resulted in a correction to the article combined with a silly number of citations. An old "Notes and Queries" journal from 1878 had one writer speculating the origin and conducting folk etymology about "germanus". Several responses pointed out the actual association with Germany. I can dig those out if you want them. Always meant to look up the big OED somewhere to find out what they thought... Colin°Talk 01:17, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: *I remember now that I also did some work on the history section. It would be great if you could check the facts and expand this. Colin°Talk 14:42, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adoption 

message: I had a look at the german version of this page, and it has no mention of the fact that we call this disease "German measles".  Someone who can write better German than me may wish to inform them of this odd fact.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.197.21.34 (talk) 23:22, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The original term was measles germanus (Latin: similar to measles). I have never heard of the german physician explanation. Sydoc (talk) 03:20, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the eMedTV "explanation" as it isn't a reliable source and has no foundation. The origin of "German measles" is somewhat shrouded, as one might expect of a lay term that just comes into use (as opposed to some Latin term you might expect to find in a medical text). Notes and Queries columns from the late 19th century also discussed this, so the problem of its origins has been around for over 100 years. What is clear is that the word "German" has always been spelled with an upper-case G. The "germanus" explanation appears to be a false or folk etymology. Perhaps  has access to better sources? Colin°Talk 08:40, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "german" measles

message: I'm cleaning up promotion at March of Dimes and here are some formatted sources:
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Thanks. Jesanj (talk) 19:18, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source dump 

message: The article included the following text:
:The name rubella is sometimes confused with rubeola, an alternative name for measles in English-speaking countries; the diseases are unrelated. In some other European languages, like Portuguese or Spanish, rubella and rubeola are synonyms, and rubeola is not an alternative name for measles.
I have removed the mention to Portuguese, leaving only "like Spanish," as the word rubella does not exist in Portuguese (in fact, double "L" has been removed from Portuguese spelling since 1943, except in foreign and some personal and family names). The disease is known in Portuguese simply as rubéola, not as rubella (or even rubela), with major Portuguese-language dictionaries such as Houaiss or Aurélio also listing the rarely used synonyms sarampo alemão (literally, "German measles") and roséola epidêmica.
--UrsoBR (talk) 21:17, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rubella in Portuguese 

message: "Rubella is a common childhood infection that can sometimes be fatal usually with minimal systemic upset..."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.100.185.147 (talk) 03:59, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reassuring... 

message: On the article Togaviridae, it says, “Diseases associated with this family include: Alphaviruses: arthritis, encephalitis; Rubiviruses: congenital rubella syndrome.” I think the words “congenital rubella syndrome” should be shortened to just “rubella”; any rubella virus infection may cause rubella, but only those in pregnant women, or women about to get pregnant, will cause CRS. It will be understood that “rubella” also means, by extension, CRS.--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 18:01, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Togaviridae 

message: The derm/259 link in the fact box to the right is wrong. It goes to measles (rubeola) instead of to dermatology for rubella. The article it should refer to is the following, but I don't know how to find a link on the form derm/xxx for it. http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1133108-overviewMick3 (talk) 12:53, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Found it and fixed it. it's derm/380. Mick3 (talk) 00:05, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

text: Fixed it. It's ped/2025 rather than peds/2025. Mick3 (talk) 00:27, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dermatology link is wrong! 

message: In one section it says....."During the epidemic in the U.S. between 1962–1965, rubella virus infections during pregnancy were estimated to have caused 30,000 stillbirths and 20,000 children to be born impaired or disabled as a result of CRS."
In a following section it says....."In the years 1964–65, the United States had an estimated 12.5 million rubella cases. This led to 11,000 miscarriages or therapeutic abortions and 20,000 cases of congenital rubella syndrome. "
Which number of stillbirths etc is correct? 30,000 or 11,000? 96.40.115.189 (talk) 04:03, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Stillbirth and miscarriage are not the same thing. Ruslik_Zero 20:32, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Conflicting stats

message: First, I grew up in a time in the US when children suffered thru a series of "childhood" diseases: rubella, chicken pox, & mumps. It was an accepted fact of life, once contracted a person never came down sick with the illness, & AFAIK children rarely if ever died of them. (As barbaric as this might sound today, my generation at least did not have to fear contracting polio, as my mother's generation did.) One benefit of having rubella, I was told, is that the acquired immunity to re-contracting rubella also made one immune to the "hard" measles. (Likewise, IIRC contracting chicken pox made one immune to small pox.)
So is this a fact? If so, this article should include this. I suspect this is one reason rubella did not receive priority for prevention & cure. -- llywrch (talk) 07:18, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Chickenpox and smallpox are not even closely related viruses, smallpox in an orthopox virus and chickinpox is a herpes virus, same with measles and rubella, rubella is a togavirus while measles is a paramyxovirus, this sounds like a strange myth to me. Tornado chaser (talk) 12:36, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  It's what I remember being told, & it was common knowledge at the time; in fact I seem to remember seeing some of these assertions repeated in my grade school text books. The frustrating thing is that I had performed a Google search before posting & could find nothing about it. -- llywrch (talk) 03:29, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I have never heard of such a thing and I am quite certain it is not true. I was an antivaxer for a time before I realized they were all wrong, and I am sure this would have been one of their talking points were it true but I never read or was told this anywhere. Tornado chaser (talk) 03:36, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

text:  ping. Tornado chaser (talk) 03:41, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rubella & "hard measles"