Vaccine Preventable Childhood Diseases Sheplan

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This disease causes membrane formation at the site of the infection that may cause respiratory obstruction

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Diphtheria

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Disease first sign is a rash that progresses from macules to papules to vesicles before crusting

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Varicella (chicken pox)

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This disease is also called whooping cough-upper respiratory infection w/ distinctive inspiratory whooping sound.

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Pertussis

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The most common cause of severe gastroenteritis in infants and young children

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Rotavirus

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"Lockjaw" stiffness of neck, difficulty swallowing, rigidity of abdominal muscles

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Tetanus

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Leading cause of preventable death in the world-upper respiratory symptoms, macularpapular rash

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Measles

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Source of many different types of infections including pneumonia, bacteremia, meningitis, and otis media

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Pneumococcal

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German measles, long incubation period, macularpapular rash, swollen lymph nodes, fever

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Rubella

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Virus that infects the nervous system, highly contagious and may cause paralysis

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Polio

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The symptoms of this disease are tenderness and swelling in salivary glands and parotid glands accompanied by nonspecific flu like sympotms

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Mumps

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Before the vaccine came out it was the leading cause of bacteria meningitis in children younger than age 5

symptoms vary depending on site, fever alt mental status, stiff neck

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Haemophilus influenzae type B