GERMAN MEASLES.

The French Disease, German Measles:

How to explain the cachet of deconstruction, the way it has infiltrated public discourse? At the crudest level of its appeal, the word announces the writer's knowingness: I'm hip to what's hip. I know what's happening in the world of big ideas. A Los Angeles-based screenwriter named Mark Horowitz, trying to explain the current French enthusiasm for movies starring Mickey Rourke, places the deco...

Congenital cataract following German measles in the mother. 1941.

In Australia in the 1940s, Norman McAlister Gregg observed a connection between pregnant women who contracted the rubella virus, or German measles, and cataract formation in their children's eyes. Gregg published his findings in the 1941 article "Congenital Cataract following German Measles in the Mother" in Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society of Australia. In the article, Gregg analyz...

Congenital Anomalies following German Measles in the Pregnant Mother

Congenital Anomalies following German Measles in the Pregnant Mother

Heterogeneity in vaccination coverage explains the size and occurrence of measles epidemics in German surveillance data.

The objective of this study was to characterize empirically the association between vaccination coverage and the size and occurrence of measles epidemics in Germany. In order to achieve this we analysed data routinely collected by the Robert Koch Institute, which comprise the weekly number of reported measles cases at all ages as well as estimates of vaccination coverage at the average age of e...