Assertion: rubella | /r/Causes | birth defects
Facets:
value: in pregnant women
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: in babies
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: in 20,000 u.s. infants
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: If caught in pregnancy, measles is more likely to cause a miscarriage or premature delivery whereas rubella is more likely to cause birth defects in the baby.
text: Although the illness is mostly mild, the virus can cause serious birth defects in pregnant women.
text: However, rubella may cause birth deformities in babies born to mothers who are infected during pregnancy.
text: Although rubella is not usually a serious illness in children or adults, it can cause birth defects or the loss of a fetus if a mother in the early stages of pregnancy becomes infected.
text: Before the vaccine was introduced, rubella caused birth defects in 20,000 U.S. infants during an epidemic in 1964 and 1965.
text: Rubella (also known as German measles) is a serious infection that causes miscarriages, stillbirths, or birth defects in unborn babies when pregnant women get the disease.
text: Rubella can cause birth defects like hearing difficulties, blindness, heart problems, mental retardation, or bone problems in babies before they are born.
text: It can cause birth defects and miscarriages.
text: But the virus can cause serious birth defects in pregnant women.
text: But the virus can cause serious birth defects in pregnant women.
text: But the virus can cause serious birth defects in pregnant women.
text: But the virus can cause serious birth defects in pregnant women.