List of childhood diseases
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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:
- Candidiasis ("Thrush")
- Chicken pox
- Chagas disease
- Croup
- Cytomegalovirus (the virus most frequently transmitted before birth)
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- Measles
- Mumps
- Rheumatic fever
- Rubella
- Whooping cough
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