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Vocabulary: childhood diseases

Before becoming strong and immune adults, newborns, children and then teenagers have to meet and face hundreds of viruses and microbes to which their bodies must get used to resisting. 

To have a temperature/ a fever	To have a (common) cold	To have a runny nose	To have the flu (influenza)
A sinusitis	A throat infection	An ear infection	To have nausea
A gastroenteritis	Jaundice	To vomit/to puke/ to throw up	To faint

                                                                                             CHILDHOOD DISEASES

 Here are the main ones: 

Whooping cough	Chicken pox	German measles/ rubella
Measles	Mumps	Scarlet fever

The most terrible of those viral diseases, which happened to be very contagious, was undoubtedly smallpox. It was the cause of many deaths in horrible conditions. It was declared "eradicated" in 1977 thanks to widespread vaccination.  

 VACCINES :

A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease. The vaccine content is made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe to inject. Therefore, the patient's boby is trained to fight against those diseases making antibodies. 

The Calmette and Guérin Vaccine= against tuberculosis (TB)

MMR = measles - mumps- rubela

Getting and giving the shots of the different vaccines is not only an individual, but a collective protection: it helps eradicate dangerous illnesses! 

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1. I'm sorry I didn't accept the vaccine. Now, I'm lying in bed with a throat infectionthe flua runny noseI don't know, shivering with fever and with a terrible headache.
2. His liver isn't working properly. Peter has mumpswhooping coughjaundiceI don't know and can eat nothing.
3. MumpsA runny noseWhooping coughI don't know can be deadly for newborns. Therefore, they should absolutely have the vaccine soon after birth.
4. Though perfectly innocuous when very young, the poxmumpsscarlet feverI don't know must be avoided for male teenagers and men since it may make them sterile.
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8. Wash your hands carefully... If not, be aware that there's an epidemic of faintinggastroenteritissneezingI don't know. You might catch it...
9. He had eaten too much and sneezedcoughednauseatedvomitedI don't know in class. He's still not feeling too well now.