Top Dangerous Diseases That Can Be Prevented By Vaccine (2)

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Hepatitis B (A Viral Liver Disease)

English: Hepatitis B virus surface antigen. Transmission electron Micrograph

Hepatitis B is a liver disease caused by HBV virus, causing fever, debility and jaundice.

How You Get Hepatitis B

Hepatitis B is caused by HBV virus which is present in the blood, semen and other body fluids of infected person. It is transmitted from infected to another by sex or sharing needles. A mother can transmit it to babies during pregnancy.

Why Hepatitis B Is Serious

Hepatitis B is a dangerous disease as this disease can cause liver scarring, liver failure and can lead to liver cancer thus causing death.

Mumps (A Viral Disease)

Child with mumps

Mumps is also known as epidemic parotitis, a infectious and contagious viral disease which causes swelling of salivary glands in face (parotid salivary glands).

How Do You Get Mumps

Mumps is an airborne viral disease which can spread by saliva droplets released as a result of coughing or sneezing by infected person. These tiny droplets can easily be breathed in by anyone. It can also be spread by sharing food and drinks.

Why Mumps Is Serious Disease

It can cause long lasting complications like meningitis and deafness. Other complications may include painful testicular inflammation, ovarian inflammation, acute pancreatic inflammation and brain inflammation.

Meningococcal Disease

Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman with meningococcal disease

Meningococcal disease is a very serious disease which causes inflammation of shielding covering of brain and spinal cord (meningitis) and blood poisoning (septicemia).

How You Get Meningococcal Disease

The causative agent behind meningococcal disease is a bacterium which can’t last long outside the human body so it has to be inside of body to live. It is spread through the exchange of respiratory secretions during close contact like kissing or coughing on someone.

How This Disease Is Serious

This disease is very serious because it causes inflammation of shielding covering of brain and spinal cord (meningitis) and blood poisoning (septicemia).

Haemophilus Influenzae Type B (Bacterial Disease)

Haemophilus Influenzae

Haemophilus Influenzae type B is a bacterial disease caused by a gram negative Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) bacterium which brings about pneumonia, meningitis, septic arthritis, cellulitis, otitis media and some other less common illnesses like endocarditis and osteomyelitis.

How You Get Haemophilus Influenzae Type B

Hib bacterium lives in the nose or throat of people. By coughing, this bacterium goes airborne. As babies and young children have weak immune system, they are especially at risk of getting this disease.

Why Haemophilus Influenzae Type B Is Serious

This is a serious disease as it infects lungs and brings about pneumonia like condition. Not only lungs, it also attacks brain and spinal cord and remove their protective covering (meningitis). It can also cause septic arthritis, cellulitis and otitis media.