Rubella Vaccines: What You NEED To Know

Rubella Vaccines: What You NEED To Know

From Dr. Sam Bailey on Odysee by Dr. Sam Bailey

March 10, 2026 · 19 min

About this episode

This episode explores the history and misconceptions surrounding rubella vaccines and their impact on public health.

The spectrum of alleged “infectious diseases” includes severe ones such as poliomyelitis, HIV and even the fabled “Black Death” or plague. Then there are the mild ones such as influenza although the imagined virus has sometimes been said to have killed millions at a time. While this distortion of science is no joke, one may see the funny side of fantasy “human coronavirus experiments” at the very bottom of the barrel. Rubella, or “German measles” occupies a unique position in the giant book of allopathic medicine. Up until the 1940s it was considered to be one of the mildest childhood diseases, of little more consequence than a brief bout of the flu. However, everything changed in 1942 when an Australian doctor published a paper that resulted in rubella becoming a dreaded condition across the world. The sudden change in narrative blamed the alleged rubella virus for permanently damaging babies in utero to cause severe congenital defects. By the 1960s, girls and mothers were scrambling to be vaccinated, a factor that enabled the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella or MMR vaccine to become part of the medical landscape. In this video we examine the foundational scientific evidence to…

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Host: Dr. Sam Bailey

Topics covered

  • rubella vaccines
  • infectious diseases
  • medical misconceptions
  • vaccination history
  • congenital defects
  • MMR vaccine

Keywords

  • rubella
  • vaccines
  • MMR
  • infectious diseases
  • medical history
  • congenital defects
  • vaccination

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Organizations: Measles, Mumps, and Rubella, MMR vaccine

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