Has the United States Population Been Adequately Vaccinated to Achieve Rubella Elimination?

Rubella immunity levels in the United States population: has the threshold of viral elimination been reached?

After the 1989-1991 rubella resurgence, rubella vaccination efforts targeted children and women of childbearing age. Utilizing National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data collected during 1988-1994 and 1999-2004, we assessed whether US levels of rubella seropositivity are consistent with rubella elimination and whether changes are consistent with immunization efforts. Serum samples wi...

Evidence used to support the achievement and maintenance of elimination of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in the United States.

On 29 October 2004, an expert panel was convened to review the status of elimination of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) in the United States. Primarily based on 5 types of information presented--epidemiology of reported cases, molecular epidemiology, seroprevalence, vaccine coverage, and adequacy of surveillance--the panel unanimously agreed that rubella virus is no longer endemic...

The Forum How Has Bourdieu Been Good to Think With? The Case of the United States

The place of Bourdieu in the small pantheon of individuals who have determined the shape of the social sciences at the beginning of the twenty-first century is beyond question. His work has transformed the terms of the discourse and what frontier research means in U.S. sociology today. This is no small feat given that this discipline is a huge machine indeed, as our some 14,000 sociologists are...

The Americas region declares that rubella has been eliminated.

Has the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine been fully exonerated?