“Who is at risk?” Childhood Vaccine-Preventable Diseases There are a group of viral infections that are responsible worldwide for illness and death in children. These preventable childhood diseases include measles (rubeola), mumps, German measles (rubella), diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), tetanus, influenza, chicken pox, and Hemophilus influenza. Vaccines have contributed enormously in reducing the morbidity (illness) and mortality (death) in the […]
