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 Mumps
is a contagious disease that causes painful swelling in front and below
the ears. Mumps is caused by a virus in the salvia of a person who is infected.
Symptoms start to appear about 18 days after the victim is infected with
the disease. They include headache, fever, muscle ache, and sometimes
vomiting.
Measles  contagious.
This disease occurs mostly in children, but some young adults can catch
it too. Few people in Canada and the United States die from the measles.
This disease kills many people that live in undernourished and in developing
countries. The medical name for the measles is Rubeolla. German
measles, known as Rubeolla is a different disease, but has similar symptoms.
Diphtheria  Diphtheria
is a disease contagious to the upper respiratory area or skin. Most
of the victims are under the age of 10. In the 1800’s the disease
swept the U.S.A.
This disease is caused by a bacteria which causes soar throat, fever, coughing, sneezing, and swelling in the neck. After the disease it can affect the heart, kidneys, and the nervous system. It also affects the nerves and muscles of the eyes and throat infection will break off skin. If it is not treated it could block the breathing passage. Also permanent heart damage sometimes. 
It has killed 20% of its victims. Long ago they used to have no cure,
but now days you can get a shot. When the settlers came to America
they carried the disease and the Native Americans caught it. Many
of them died. The disease was almost all over the world in the 1940’s,
but in 1971 almost all children in the U.S.A. were vaccinated including
infants. In 1967 the World Health organization got rid of Small pox in
Africa, Asia, and South America. Finally in May 1980 Small Pox was officially
gone.
Tuberculosis Scarlet Fever Influenza  You
get the chills, fever, headache, aches, weakness, infections, bacteria.
Pneumonia respiratory disease virus is inhaled when you get it, it spreads
deep in the lungs it infects cells, some treatment causes 2nd dray infections,
occur in epidemics. Cold causes the flu often. In winter 20
million included 500,000 Americans died because of the flu 1918- 1919.
Some flu cases catch to certain animals.
Pneumonia In 1988 350,000 children were hit with Polio, a viral disease that causes paralysis and was tins away of muscles. In that year the World Health Organization deter mined wipeout the disease globally Beginning vaccinations. By 2001, fewer than 500 cases were reported world wide. Polio attacks the brain. No drug has yet been found Polio  have
a sore throat, fever, upset stomach or even throw up. Others will
have those symptoms and a stiff neck, legs and back. The worst case
of polio is when it can cause permanent weakness or even paralyze legs,
arms or both. There is no cure for polio.
Pertussis (sometimes called "Whooping Cough")  Pertussis
is caused by a bacteria. It is very contagious and is spread through
the air. In the first couple of weeks that you have pertussis, you
might think that you just have a cold. Next, you can get the fast
coughing. A person with pertussis will cough long and hard.
When they try to breath in air they sometimes make a whooping sound.
Even after the cough goes away, it can come back. If the person would
get another illness, pertussis will come right back. This might happen
for many months after a person feels better. This disease is very
dangerous for babies and small children.
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