Many people suffered serious complications and many died. Today, some children and adults are still unimmunized, risking serious illness, even though all of the following diseases are preventable with vaccines. This is the most serious of the vaccine-preventable diseases. Three out of 10 victims develop pneumonia. Mumps Mumps can result in hearing loss and inflamed testicles in 1 out of 5 cases.
Sterility is possible, but rare.
This disease is usually mild in children, but is dangerous for a woman during her first three months of pregnancy. All women of childbearing age should receive the rubella vaccine, unless they have had a test which shows they are protected. Polio Polio can cause permanent paralysis and sometimes death. This disease begins as a severe sore throat and may progress to suffocation or heart failure. Although it is rare today, it is fatal to 1 out of every 10 people who get it.