Childhood diseases: How to identify them: Following the recent rise in Strep A and Scarlet Fever cases, this article will help you quickly identify common childhood diseases. How to recognise and treat mumps, measles, scarlet fever and hand foot and mouth. People of any age can catch mumps, it is an unpleasant disease, but can lead to serious complications, including viral meningitis, pancreatitis and swelling of the testes or ovaries in adults. There has been a marked drop in uptake of the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine which has led to a rise in measles cases. The MMR jab provides 99%
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