BRIEF — Japanese Rubella outbreak prompts vaccine offering

Rubella vaccines are being offered for free to middle-aged men in Japan who missed out on immunisations in their childhood.

The three-year program is a response to the ongoing rubella outbreak in the Asian country, where nearly 2,500 people have been diagnosed with the infectious disease this year,  according to China.org.

The National Institute of Infectious Diseases is urging people, particularly men in their thirties to fifties, to get vaccinated against the viral infection, which is also known as German measles.