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Varicella

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Varicella is chicken pox. It is caused by a virus. Chicken Pox usually begins with a few spots and then quickly spreads to up to a couple hundred spots or blisters all over the body. Blisters have been known to show up in rather uncomfortable places, such as on the eyelid or in private areas.

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• Between 75 - 90% of chickenpox cases

occur in children under 10 years of age.

• Before the introduction of the vaccine, about 4 million cases of chickenpox were reported in the U.S. each year.

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Diptheria

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• Diptheria is caused by a bacterium.

• Diptheria spreads easily and quickly from person to person through sneezing and coughing. Diphtheria is especially dangerous when it affects the throat where is can cause a gray fibrous membrane to form and block the airways.

• Death can result from diptheria.

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Whooping Cough

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Whooping Cough is also called pertussis. It is caused by a bacterium. Symptoms of pertussis include a dry cough, low-grade fever and irritability. One to two weeks later, a child will suffer from explosive bursts of coughs with no breaths between and thick mucus. Often children experience bulging eyes, a protruding tongue,pale or reddened skin, vomiting, sweating, exhaustion and hernias from coughing so hard.

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• Primarily a childhood illness, the cough is a highly contagious respiratory tract infection.

• Before1950 thousands of cases were reported each year in the US.• The world wide reported mortality rate is

nearly 50%.

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Tetanus

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Tetanus is caused by a toxin producingbacterium. The symptoms of tetanus includeStiff muscles, stiff jaw, muscle spasms,usually of the jaw or neck, muscle irritability, and a fever. As the toxins build throughoutthe body, the symptoms may become morepronounced and the muscle spasms maybecome quite severe. Difficult breathing andstoppage the heart can result.

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Measles(English Measles)

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• Measles is a respiratory infection caused by a virus.

• Symptoms include rash, fever, runny nose, red eyes and coughing.

• The world wide death rate from measles is over 150,000 annually. In the US before widespread vaccination the death rate was about 14 per 10,000 cases of measles.

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Mumps

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Mumps is caused by a virus that causesswelling of the parotid glands. Mumpssometimes affects the other salivaryglands, which can lead to swelling under thetongue, in the jaw and in the chest. EvenMore dangerous is the rare possibility ofswelling of the brain or other organs. Inadolescent and adult males, inflammation ofthe testicles may occur.

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Rubella

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• Rubella is caused by a virus.• Rubella usually is a mild rash illness in

children and adults; however, infection early in a woman's pregnancy, particularly during the first 16 weeks, can result in miscarriage, fetal death, or an infant born with birth defects.

• In 2000 over a 150,000 cases were reported worldwide.

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Polio

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• Polio (Poliomyelitis) is a virus that can leave victims paralyzed, and in severe cases, unable to breath on their own.

• Polio epidemics used to be common in the US. In 1952, nearly 60,000 cases with more than 3,000 deaths were reported in the United States alone.

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Hepatitis B

Hepatitis liver cells

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• Hepatitis B is caused by a virus. It may have symptoms similar to the flu — tiredness, nausea, loss of appetite, mild fever, and vomiting, abdominal pain or pain underneath the right ribcage where the liver is.

• Hepatitis B can also cause jaundice, which is a yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes, and may cause the urine to appear brownish.

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• About 2 billion people worldwide have been infected with the Hepatitis virus and about 350 million live with chronic infection. An estimated 600 000 persons die each year due to the acute or chronic consequences of hepatitis B.