Remember the term the mumps "fell" on someone? That was when it went to the testicles. Bad stuff. One thing all those childhood diseases have in common is they can and do kill kids. I remeber when people had "chicken pox parties" where parents would expose their kids to an infected kid so they would get it at a convenient time. We had a kid come in the hospital and die after contacting chicken pox this way and it going on to meningitis. We used to have about a case a year of chicken pox meningitis. I have seen about a case of tetanus a year and a few cases of polio on people that hadn't had their shots. The polio was in babies that hadn't had the vaccine yet. The tetanus was always farmers that worked around barn yards with cow manure. We also saw whooping cough in unvaccinated infants.
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