Rubella has been eliminated from Singapore. The end of 2022 has become the end of Rubella, sometimes known as (German Measles, Three-Day Measles), in Singapore, as the country has eliminated the disease. Rubella is a highly contagious and vaccine-preventable viral disease that, while relatively mild for most, can cause death or serious birth defects in an unborn baby if the mother contracts the virus while pregnant.

Singapore's success is part of a larger global trend in the fight against the disease, as the number of one-year-olds vaccinated against rebulla improved globally from 21% in 2000 to 66% by 2021.

The good news is that vaccination coverage has improved dramatically in a little over three decades between 1980 and 2022. For many vaccines, the percentage of global one-year-olds immunized against a particular disease improved from 20% to 80%.
Progress forward isn't; however, progress completed, and many children globally still lack access to basic vaccination. Just 35% of global children have been vaccinated against rotavirus and just 47% against pneumonia.

🙌🏻🙏💙🙏🙌🏻

Pack immunity ftw

The world really needs another win, in terms of completely elimination another disease like that, to curb the increasing amount of anti-vaxxer nonsense.

Vaccines are legit!

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