NOUN
- a contagious viral disease that is a milder form of measles lasting three or four days; can be damaging to a fetus during the first trimester
How To Use German measles In A Sentence
- Adults are often immune to German measles.
- Rubella is just another name for German measles.
- Edit when we called sauerkraut ‘Liberty cabbage’ and somebody actually proposed calling German measles ‘Liberty measles’ 400 (minus 1) - The Panda's Thumb
- It's worth checking you are definitely immune to German measles. The Sun
- MMR stands for measles, mumps, and rubella (also called German measles). Giving your child the MMR vaccine protects them against these diseases.
- At the turn of the century, health care seems to have come light years from the days of leeches, country-side doctors and a lack of remedies for ailments such as polio, rubella and the German measles.
- Adults are often immune to German measles.
- In scarlet fever in from three to five days, rarely later than a week; in measles in from nine to fourteen days, occasionally as late as twenty days; in whooping-cough in from one to two weeks; in chicken-pox in from fourteen to sixteen days; in German measles in from ten to sixteen days. The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses
- Rubella is just another name for German measles.
- There are fears that cases of rubella, also known as german measles, will increase owing to declining rates of vaccination with MMR, leaving mothers-to-be at risk of catching it from children.
