# Rubella completely eliminated in the Americas

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**Created:** [April 30, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rubella-completely-eliminated-in-the-americas/718917 "2015-04-30T18:29:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rubella-completely-eliminated-in-the-americas/718917/9 "2015-04-30T22:35:25Z")

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> [@Alt/Conventional medicine treating Cancer, Rubella, other diseases \[split off from Rubella thread\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alt-conventional-medicine-treating-cancer-rubella-other-diseases-split-off-from-rubella-thread/718940/23):
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> Well, most people who catch rubella get better with no treatment beyond bed rest and chicken soup. I’m sure that if you add vitamin C and juice to that regimen, most of them will still get better.
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> Of course, a few people who catch rubella are seriously injured or die, and everyone who catches rubella can spread it to other people, some of whom may be in the unlucky group.
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> Very few cancers are contagious. I was sad that Steve Jobs died after he tried to treat himself with juice and vitamins, but hey, his body, his choice.
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> fwiw, I know several people who have recovered from cancer after conventional treatment, which can include chemo, radiation, surgery, or fancy experimental immunological treatments. And I know others who died.

I had German measles as a kid and that was indeed part of the treatment my mother used but it was also long enough ago that we had a house call from the family doctor twice and baby aspirins was part of the treatment.

As to Steve Jobs, I am pretty sure he had pancreatic cancer which is one of the forms that is sadly still fairly unresponsive to treatment. I don’t think he was choosing juice and vitamins over a sound treatment in his case but I think it was a “Hail Mary” for a cancer that was pretty much untreatable. Even when caught early the vast majority of pancreatic cancer victims die within 5 years. Maybe I’m wrong on the details though of his thought process.

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