| DIPHTHERIA - A thick covering on the back of the throat which can cause breathing problems, paralysis, heart failure, and even death. Click Here to see a child with Diphtheria |
TETANUS - Serious, painful spasms of all muscles. Can cause a painful "locking" of the jaw making it impossible to open mouth or swallow. Can lead to death. Click here to see a child with Tetanus |
| PERTUSSIS (Whooping Cough) - Severe coughing spells that can lead to pneumonia, seizures, brain damage, or death. Click here to see a child with Pertusus. |
POLIO - Causes paralysis of the arms and legs and can eventually lead to death. Click here to see a child with Polio |
| MEASLES - A virus that causes rash, cough, runny nose, eye irritation, and fever. It can lead to ear infection, pneumonia, seizures, brain damage, and death. Click here to see a picture of a child with Measles. |
MUMPS - A virus that causes fever, headache, and swollen glands. It can lead to deafness, meningitis, painful swelling of the testicles or ovaries, and sometimes death. Click here to see a picture of a child with Mumps. |
| HEPATITIS A - A virus that causes mild "flu-like" symptoms, jaundice, severe stomach cramping, and diarrhea. Often requires hospitalization. In rare cases, it can cause death. Click here to see a patient with Hepatitis A. |
HEPATITIS B - The Hepatitis B virus can cause short-term (acute) illness that leads to loss of appetite, tiredness, diarrhea, and vomiting, jaundice, pain in muscles, joints, and stomach. Click here to see a patient with Hepatitis B. |
| HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B (Hib) - A disease that can cause meningitis (infection of the brain and spinal cord coverings), lasting brain damage, pneumonia, severe swelling of the throat, infections of the blood, joints, bones and covering of the heart. It can eventually lead to death. Click here to see a child with Haemophilus Influenzae Type B. |
VARICELLA (ChickenPox) - A virus which causes a rash, itching, fever, and tiredness. It can lead to severe skin infection, scars, pneumonia, brain damage, or death. Click here to view a child with Chickenpox. |
| RUBELLA (German Measles) - A disease that causes rash, mild fever, swollen glands, and arthritis (mostly in women). Click here to see pictures of children who's mothers had Rubella. |
PNEUMOCOCCAL DISEASE - a leading cause of serious illness in children and adults throughout the world. It can attack different parts of the body. When pneumococcal bacteria invade the lungs, they cause pneumonia; when they invade the bloodstream, they cause bacteremia; and when they invade the covering of the brain, they cause meningitis. They can cause ear and sinus infections. Click here to see an example of Pneumococcal infection |