http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/HomeRemedies/Rubella.asp
TREATMENT OF RUBELLA
Boil a few neem leaves for half an hour. Drain this neem water. Wash the face with neem water. Dab the skin with a clean cloth. Do not scrub the face.

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http://www.astdhpphe.org/infect/rubella.html
FACTSHEET
Rubella [rue-BELL-uh] is a mild but very contagious viral illness.
Other names for rubella are German measles and three-day measles.

Rubella is dangerous because of its ability to harm unborn babies.
Infection in a pregnant woman can result in miscarriage, stillbirth, or serious birth defects.

People get rubella by breathing in droplets that get into the air when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or talks. Rubella can also spread by direct contact with fluids from the nose or throat of an infected person. ...

SYMPTOMS:
About half of people infected with rubella virus get a rash that looks like small, fine pink spots. The rash first appears on the face and progresses from head to foot, lasting about 3 days. Children usually develop few or no other symptoms. Adults can have mild fever, headache, reddened eyes, swollen glands behind the ears, tiredness, and joint pain.

An infected person can spread the disease for as many as 5 days before the rash appears to 7 days after.

COMPLICATIONS:
Rubella is not usually a serious disease in children, but it can be very serious if a pregnant woman becomes infected. When a woman gets rubella during pregnancy, especially during the first 3 months, the infection is likely to spread to the fetus and cause congenital rubella syndrome (CRS). Up to 20% of the infants born to mothers infected with rubella during the first trimester of pregnancy have CRS. CRS can result in miscarriage, stillbirth, and severe birth defects. The most common birth defects are blindness, deafness, heart damage, and mental retardation.

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http://www.cdc.gov/nip/diseases/disease_images.htm#Rubella
IMAGES, Online, from CDC

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http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=DS00332
Mayo Clinic Infectious Disease Center
Sometimes rubella is known as German measles, but the word German in the name of this disease has nothing to do with the country. The name likely comes from the Latin term germanus meaning "similar." And indeed, rubella and measles (rubeola) share some characteristics, but they're caused by different viruses.

Rubella and measles are both contagious viral infections best known by the distinctive red rash that may appear on the skin of those who contract either illness. However, rubella isn't as infectious as measles and is usually not as severe, which is why it's also called three-day measles. ...

The measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, usually given to children in the United States twice before they reach school age, is highly effective in preventing the illness. Before widespread use of the rubella vaccine, rubella outbreaks occurred every six to nine years, causing more than 57,000 cases of rubella in the United States in 1969. Today, only rarely does a child or an adult in the United States contract rubella. ...

Often the signs and symptoms of rubella are so mild that they're hard to notice, especially in children. If signs and symptoms do occur, they generally appear between two and three weeks after exposure to the virus. They typically last about two to three days and may include:

Mild fever
Headache
Stuffy or runny nose
Inflamed, red eyes
Enlarged, tender lymph nodes at the base of the skull, the back of the neck and behind the ears.

A fine, pink rash that begins on the face and quickly spreads to the trunk and then the arms and legs, before disappearing in the same sequence.

Aching joints, especially in young women.

DIAGNOSIS:
If your doctor suspects that you have rubella, you may need a virus culture or a blood test, which can detect the presence of different types of rubella antibodies in your blood. These antibodies indicate whether you've had a recent or past infection or a rubella vaccine.

... you may be given antibodies called hyperimmune globulin that can fight off the infection.

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http://www.ncf.ca/ip/social.services/cfseir/eecfseir/real.disease.txt
CFS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Overview article
by Charles Lapp, MD

... Taking each stage of the disorder, dysfunction of the immune system, presents as abnormalities in absolute lymphocyte, T cell, and natural killer (NK) cell numbers, but most notably by decreased effectiveness of NK cells.

The second stage is marked by reactivation of latent pathogens, most notably herpes group viruses, rubella, toxoplasmosis, Borrelia (Lyme), entero-viruses, and possibly others. Thus, if you measure the early antigen of the Epstein- Barr Virus, or the IgG titers of say Herpes Simplex, Varicella Zoster, Human Herpes virus 6, or Borrelia, several may be transiently elevated. More specific testing utilizing polymerase chain reaction, giant cell assays, and monoclonal antibodies proves that these pathogens are currently reactivated and replicating which is abnormal.