It can also cause pneumonia, brain damage, hearing loss, or death. Measles is spread by the cough, saliva or mucus of a person who has it. Mumps causes swollen and painful glands under the jaw, fever and headache. Rarely, mumps can cause inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, and hearing loss. It can also cause pain in the testicles and sterility for teen or adult males.
Mumps is spread by the cough, saliva, or mucus of a person who has it.
If a pregnant woman gets rubella, it can cause miscarriage or stillbirth, or the baby may be born blind, deaf, mentally-retarded, or with heart defects. Rubella is spread by the cough, saliva or mucus of a person who has it. It is most severe for infants and children under five years old - one in four cases results in brain damage and one in twenty is fatal. HIB is spread by the cough, saliva or mucus of a person who has it. In one out of ten people with hepatitis B, the virus stays in the liver and blood for the rest of their lives.