There were no cases of diphtheria or polio, and only two cases of tetanus. The tetanus occurred in adults whose immunity to past vaccinations had waned. Thus, for these diseases, vaccination provides no advantages for an individual child over non vaccination, but does incur risks associated with vaccination. Rubella is not an issue for the child, but for her future pregnancies. Again, vaccination provides no significant advantages for an individual child over non vaccination, but does incur risks associated with vaccination.
Mumps is an illness with a low incidence, and is a risk mainly to males rather than females.
Only 122 cases were notified in 1996. The complications of the illness are less than for measles in a female. Thus, there is a lower benefit for the same risk, suggesting little advantage for a female child being vaccinated for mumps. Even if all were assumed to occur in unvaccinated children, this suggests a risk of contracting HiB of approximately one in 15,000. This is a lower risk than the risk of complications from any current vaccine, suggesting strongly that the unvaccinated child is at no higher overall health risk than a vaccinated child.