Vaccines: 1, Rubella: 0

Oh, I do so love good medical science news: Rubella has been eliminated in the Americas (North, Central, and South). Oh, yeah. Rubella is also called German measles but is caused by an entirely different virus. In children and adults it's an irritating but generally mild infection, causing a red rash, mild fever, and swollen glands. But for pregnant women, it's devastating. An infection during the first trimester can mean an increasingly distressing (to say the very, very least) list of problems...