RUBELLA (German Measles)
This infant has the rash of Congenital Rubella (German Measles). He caught it from his un-immunized mother before birth. These infants are at great risk for severe mental retardation, deafness, blindness (atrophic eyes, cataracts, and chorioretinitis) as well as congenital heart disease and other abnormalities. This disease has been nearly eradicated in the United States as the result of routine Rubella Vaccine use. In earlier years, as many as 20,000 infants were severely affected each year.
--Image courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention --
This baby was born with Rubella. He has thickening of the lens of the eye (Cataracts) which cause blindness.
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This infant has Congenital Rubella with hemorrhagic lesions in the skin.
--Image courtesy of: Visual Red Book on CD-ROM --
--(2000 Red Book: 25th Edition, Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases)--
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