However, certain rare conditions caused by the disease, as inflammation of the brain, nerves and spinal cord can result in serious side effects such as paralysis, seizures, and fluid accumulation in the brain.

Serious side effects of mumps are more common in adults than in children. Inflammation of the testicles is the most common side effect in patients past the age of puberty and occurs between 20% and 30% of men who contract mumps. Also, there has been an increased rate of spontaneous abortions among women who become ill from infection during the first trimester of pregnancy.

Approximately 212,000 cases of mumps occurred in the U.S. in 1964. After the vaccine was licensed in 1967, mumps cases declined rapidly. In 1986 and 1987, there was a resurgence of mumps, and in 1987 12,848 cases were reported. After 1989 the incidence of mumps has declined and in 1998 recorded a total of 606 cases. This recent decrease is probably due to the fact that the children received a second dose of mumps vaccine (as part of two-dose schedule for measles, mumps and rubella vaccine known as MMR), through which children who were not protected after the first vaccine against mumps, able to develop immunity against the disease.

If vaccine was suspended mumps, it is likely that the number of cases of the disease back to the levels prior to vaccination, as mumps is easily spread between people are not immunized.

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Affected individuals suffer from tetanus rigidity and spasms in the muscles. Patients with this disease are severely narrowing the larynx (throat), which causes them difficulty breathing and eating well, muscle spasms can cause fractures (breaks) of the spine and long bones of the body. Some patients may fall into a coma and die. Approximately 30% of the reported cases the patient dies.

In the United States, tetanus is a disease that primarily affects adults. Between 1995 and 1997, 35% of reported tetanus cases occurred in patients over 60 years of age and 60% in patients between 20 and 59 years of age. The National Health Survey in 1995 revealed that only 36% of adults 65 years of age or older had received tetanus vaccinations in the past 10 years.

Worldwide cases of tetanus in newborn infants remains a major problem. Each year, tetanus kills 300,000 newborns and 30,000 parturients who had not been properly vaccinated. Recently, the United States has seen an increased number of tetanus cases among young people who use drugs intravenously, particularly among heroin users.

Tetanus is infectious but not contagious, so unlike other vaccine-preventable diseases, immunization of the members of a community does not prevent this disease among unimmunized people. Because tetanus bacteria are found in the environment, the disease can only be prevented by immunization. If vaccine was suspended tetanus in the United States, many people of all ages would be vulnerable to this serious disease.

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In the 1920′s, diphtheria was a leading causes of illness and death of children in the United States. In 1921, he reported a total of 206,000 cases and 15,520 deaths. After the vaccine was developed in 1923, the number of new cases of diphtheria began to decline in the U.S. and in 1998 reported only one case.

Although diphtheria is rare in the U.S., apparently, the bacteria continue to be transmitted to others. In 1996, we obtained 10 samples isolated from bacteria of persons belonging to an indigenous community in South Dakota, none of whom had the classic symptoms of the disease. One death was reported in 1999 by clinical diphtheria caused by a bacterium related.

There are high rates of susceptibility among adults. Screening tests conducted since 1977 have revealed that between 41% and 84% of adults in the country 60 years of age or older do not have adequate protective levels of circulating antitoxin against diphtheria.

Although diphtheria is rare in the United States, still pose a threat. Diphtheria is common in other countries and increased international travel, diphtheria and other infectious diseases can arrive in the country at any time. If immunization was suspended in the United States could experience a similar situation we are living in the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union. Following the suspension of public health services in this region began in 1990 diphtheria epidemic, mainly among people who had not been immunized against the disease. Between 1990 and 1998 were more than 150,000 cases and 5,000 deaths.

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The country studies show that 5% of Americans (ie, 1.25 million people) are infected with hepatitis B. These same studies also indicated that during the two decades prior to 1990, approximately 300,000 people were infected with hepatitis B each year. Currently, there are about 1.25 million people with the infection of hepatitis B virus for life. Every year between 4,000 and 5,000 of these people because of liver disease related to hepatitis B, which represents more than 700 million dollars in medical costs and absence from work.

Infants and children who are infected with hepatitis B virus are at higher risk of developing a lifelong infection, which frequently leads to death from liver damage (cirrhosis) and liver cancer. Approximately 25% of children who are infected for life with the hepatitis B virus-related liver disease die in adulthood.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that one third of the lifelong infection with the hepatitis B virus in the United States are due to infections during infancy and early childhood. Annually, between 16,000 and 20,000 women infected with hepatitis B antigen give birth in the United States. It is estimated that before the implementation of immunization programs for infants, each year about 12,000 children born to mothers infected with hepatitis B virus also contracted the virus. In addition, approximately 33,000 children (10 years old or younger) born to mothers who were not infected with hepatitis B virus, were infected each year, before recommending the routine administration of vaccines against hepatitis B during childhood.

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Chickenpox is usually a mild disease, but may be complicated in some infants, teens and adults. Some people who get chickenpox have also come to suffer complications such as secondary bacterial infections, fluid loss (dehydration), pneumonia and central nervous system disorders.

In addition, only people who have had chickenpox at some point in their lives can get herpes zoster, a painful inflammation of the nerves. Annually there are about 300,000 cases of herpes zoster, which occurs when the chickenpox virus inactive becomes active in people who had chickenpox in the past.

Between March 1995 and August 1999, was given a total of 18.5 million doses of varicella vaccine in the United States. In 1998, vaccination coverage among children aged 19 to 35 months was 43%.

In 1990 it was estimated that U.S. health care costs for children who contracted chickenpox amounted to 918 million dollars annually. If we fail to administer varicella vaccine in the United States, the disease quickly become the high rate of infection had previously. Consequently, almost all children would lose a week of school (and a parent, a working week), also between 50 and 100 people die as a result of chickenpox each year, most of whom are children and adults that were previously in good health.

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Between 1964 and 1965, before the use of rubella immunization as a routine practice in the U.S., there was an epidemic of this disease as a result of which approximately 20,000 infants born with CRS and there were 2,100 deaths of infants and 11,250 abortions . Of the 20,000 children born with CRS, 11,600 were deaf, blind 3850 and 1800 suffered from mental retardation.

Many developing countries do not include rubella among immunization programs aimed at children. Since 1996, over 50% of reported rubella cases occurred among adults. Among the places where they have caused outbreaks of disease are workplaces and communities themselves. In 1998 there were 12 outbreaks of rubella, in which 19 pregnant women contracted the disease.

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Before disposing of immunization against pertussis, nearly all children contracted the disease. In the United States before the vaccine will be counted against this evil, were reported annually between 150,000 and 260,000 pertussis cases and 9,000 deaths related to the disease.

Whooping cough can be a serious and results in prolonged coughing spells that can last several weeks. These difficult coughing certain basic functions such as eating, drinking and breathing. Because vomiting often occur after coughing, infants may lose weight and become dehydrated. This disease can also cause pneumonia in infants and cause brain damage, seizures and mental retardation.

In the U.S., the newer vaccine against pertussis (acellular or DTaP’s) has been available for medical use since 1991. These vaccines are effective and cause fewer adverse reactions, softer and more moderate than previous vaccines (whole cell or DTP).

During the 70′s, the concern among the public regarding the safety of pertussis vaccine led to a rapid fall in immunization levels in the United Kingdom. During an epidemic in the mid 70′s there were more than 100,000 cases and 36 deaths due to pertussis. In Japan, the level of vaccination against whooping cough fell from 80% in 1974 to 20% in 1979, which produced an epidemic of whooping cough that resulted in over 13,000 cases and 41 deaths.

Worldwide there are cases of whooping cough. If we fail to deliver vaccines against pertussis in the United States would experience a massive resurgence of the disease. A recent study revealed that in eight countries where immunization levels were low, the incidence rate of pertussis were 10 to 100 times higher than in countries where vaccination levels had remained unchanged.

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Before there Hib vaccine, this disease was the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in infants and children in the United States. Before you count on a vaccine, approximately 20,000 reported cases of invasive Hib each year.

About two thirds of those 20,000 cases were meningitis and one third were from other invasive Hib variants that could cause death, such as bacteria in the bloodstream, pneumonia or inflammation of the epiglottis. About one in every 200 American children under age 5 suffering from meningitis invasive. Hib meningitis caused the deaths of 600 children per year, and many of the survivors suffered from deafness, seizures or mental retardation.

Since the introduction of the Hib conjugate vaccine in December 1987, the incidence of this disease has decreased by 98%. Between 1994 and 1998, were reported annually less than 10 fatal cases of invasive Hib

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In industrialized countries, 20% of people with measles are hospitalized and between 7% and 9% suffer complications like pneumonia, diarrhea or ear infections. Although less common, some patients may develop measles encephalitis, which can result in brain damage. It is estimated that the mortality rate from measles rises to one in 1,000 people.

Measles is one of the most infectious diseases in the world and often the virus reaches the United States. In 1998, the majority of measles cases was associated with the presence of visitors from other countries and Americans were exposed to measles while traveling abroad. Over 90% of people are not immune to measles will develop the disease if exposed to the virus.

According to the World Health Organization, in 1998 there were nearly 900,000 deaths in developing countries. In populations that have not been immunized, measles spreads rapidly. If vaccination campaigns were conducted, there could be around 2.7 million measles deaths worldwide. In the U.S., the widespread use of measles vaccine has led to a reduction of more than 99% in the number of cases, compared to the time when there was no vaccine. If vaccination program was suspended, cases of measles would increase to reach the same levels seen before.

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Polio

Virus polio (or poliomyelitis) causes acute paralysis that can result in permanent disability and even death. Before there was the polio vaccine, were reported annually between 13,000 and 20,000 cases of paralytic polio in the United States. Often, these annual epidemics of polio left thousands of victims (mostly children) in iron lungs or condemned to wear braces, crutches and wheelchairs.

The development of polio vaccines and implementation of immunization programs have eradicated polio causes paralysis caused by wild polio virus in the United States and all Western Hemisphere countries.

In 1999, as a result of immunization efforts to eradicate the disease, there were approximately 5,000 cases of polio documented in the world. In 1994, Canada became the wild polio virus from India, but high vaccination levels prevented it from spreading among the population.

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