Rubella Vaccination For Children May Protect Adult Eyes

Childhood vaccination for the rubella virus may have also almost entirely eliminated an inflammatory eye disease from the U.S.-born population, according to a study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.The study is published in the September issue of the American Journal of Ophthalmology.Fuchs heterochromic iridocyclitis, or FHI, is a chronic inflammatory disease of the eye that causes cataract and glaucoma and can lead to blindness. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Eye Health on September 21st, 2007