Editing Rubella virus (section)

==Taxonomy==
Rubella virus (''Rubivirus rubellae'') is assigned to the ''Rubivirus'' genus.<ref name=bennett />

===''Matonaviridae'' family===
Until 2018, Rubiviruses were classified as part of the family ''[[Togaviridae]]'', but have since been changed to be the sole genus of the family ''Matonaviridae''. This family is named after George de Maton, who in 1814 first distinguished rubella from [[measles]] and [[scarlet fever]].<ref name="ICTVProposal">{{cite web|vauthors=Chen R, Mukhopadhyay S, Merits A, Bolling B, Nasar F, Coffey LL, Powers A, Weaver S, Smith D, Simmonds P, Siddell S|title=Create a new family ''Matonaviridae'' to include the genus ''Rubivirus'', removed from the family ''Togaviridae''|url=https://ictv.global/ictv/proposals/2018.013S.A.v3.Matonaviridae.zip|format=docx|website=ictv.global|publisher=International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses|date=June 2018|access-date=21 January 2025|language=en}}</ref> The change was made by the [[International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses]] (ICTV), the central governing body for [[Virus classification|viral classification]]. ''Matonaviridae'' remains part of the realm that it was already in as ''Togaviridae'', ''[[Riboviria]]'', because of its RNA genome and [[RNA-dependent RNA polymerase|RNA dependent RNA polymerase]]''.''<ref name="ICTVProposal" />

===Other rubiviruses===
In 2020, [[Ruhugu virus]] and [[Rustrela virus]] joined  Rubella virus as second and third of only three members of the genus ''Rubivirus''.<ref name="nature">{{Cite journal |last1=Bennett |first1=Andrew J. |last2=Paskey |first2=Adrian C. |last3=Ebinger |first3=Arnt |last4=Pfaff |first4=Florian |last5=Priemer |first5=Grit |last6=Höper |first6=Dirk |last7=Breithaupt |first7=Angele |last8=Heuser |first8=Elisa |last9=Ulrich |first9=Rainer G. |last10=Kuhn |first10=Jens H. |last11=Bishop-Lilly |first11=Kimberly A. |date=2020-10-07 |title=Relatives of rubella virus in diverse mammals |url= |journal=Nature |language=en |pages=1–5 |doi=10.1038/s41586-020-2812-9 |pmid=33029010 |issn=1476-4687|pmc=7572621 }}</ref> Neither of them are known to infect people.<ref name="science">{{Cite journal|last1=Gibbons|first1=Ann|date=2020-10-07|title=Newly discovered viruses suggest 'German measles' jumped from animals to humans|url=https://www.science.org/content/article/newly-discovered-viruses-suggest-rubella-jumped-animals-humans|language=en|doi=10.1126/science.abf1520|journal=science|access-date=30 June 2022|archive-date=8 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208104617/https://www.science.org/content/article/newly-discovered-viruses-suggest-rubella-jumped-animals-humans|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref>