Ep 64 Rubella: Timing is Everything

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Health & Fitness, Science

4.8 • 17.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

For many of us, rubella has simply come to mean the R in MMR, the routine childhood measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. But that hasn’t always been the case. There was once a time when the rubella virus routinely made front page news and was at the center of countless legal discussions. This week, we explore everything you’ve ever wanted to know about this virus. We start off by asking what this virus does to your body and how it can cross the placenta, leading to congenital rubella syndrome. Then we journey through the short but impactful history of this disease, from the discovery of the effects the virus can have on a developing fetus to the widespread epidemics that spurred on the development of a vaccine. Finally we wrap up with some much-needed good news about the global decline of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome.

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0:27.6	On her second day of life, Kimberly Cowley had congestive heart failure.
0:32.0	Considering the vast array of health issues she had been born with, hearing and vision
0:35.8	loss, a rare condition known as tetrology of Follow, caused by a combination of four
0:40.4	heart defects and one of which is a killer.
0:43.3	Expectations of survival were low.
0:46.0	Against all odds, Kimberly survived, but the road has been long and often painful.
0:51.0	Born in Hamilton, Canada in 1964, Kimberly spent the first two months of her life in the
0:55.5	hospital.
0:56.5	Her parents were young and shortly after marriage, her mother became sick.
1:00.1	She thought it might be about a flu.
1:02.1	And then, once she learned she was pregnant, she thought maybe that was why she felt
1:05.7	unwell.
1:06.7	It was neither.
1:08.4	Her mother later learned that it had been Rubella, having come into contact with an infected
1:12.5	relative in her first trimester.
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