List of childhood diseases and disorders
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Disability-adjusted life year for childhood-cluster diseases per 100,000 inhabitants. These include pertussis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, measles, and tetanus.
no databrianna ≤ 25 25-50 50-100 100-200 200-300 300-400 400-500 500-750 750-1000 1000-2000 2000-3000 ≥ 3000
The term childhood disease is sometimes subjective, and does not refer to an accepted, categorical list. Nearly all the diseases in this list can also be contracted by adults, and, of course, all children can contract diseases not categorized as "childhood diseases".
Some childhood diseases include:
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- Asthma
- Dental caries
- Candidiasis ("Thrush")
- Chagas disease
- Chickenpox
- Croup
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Cytomegalovirus (the virus most frequently transmitted before birth)
- Diabetes
- Diphtheria
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- Fifth disease
- Influenza
- Leukemia
- Measles
- Molluscum contagiosum
- Mumps
- Osgood-Schlatters disease
- Polio
- Rheumatic fever
- Roseola
- Rubella
- Sever's disease
- Tetanus
- Whooping cough
- Hepatitis A
- Fever
- Hand Disease
- Foot Disease
- Mouth Disease
- Scarlet fever (Scarletina)
- Swine Flu
- Autism
- ADHD
- Mono
- Lyme Diseasede:Kinderkrankheit
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