Can be prevented with the Polio Vaccine. Symptoms include mild discomfort, slight fever for 24 hours, joint pain, and a rash on the face and neck lasting for two or three days. MMR Vaccine prevents this disease. Enters the body through a wound. Produces a poison which affects the body's nervous system.
Symptoms are headache, irritability, stiffness in jaw and neck.
Causes muscle spasms in jaw, neck, arms, legs and abdomen. May require intensive hospital care. Three out of every 10 people in the United States who get Tetanus die. Four million cases occur in the United States each year. Causes more than 9,000 hospitalizations and up to 100 deaths each year.