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(2000 Red Book: 25th Edition, Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases)

Warning: These images are graphic and disturbing

Click for a larger image	DIPHTHERIA Diphtheria with marked swelling of the lymph nodes in the neck.
Click for a larger image	HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B INFECTIONS An infant with severe vasculitis with disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) with gangrene of the hand secondary to Haemophilus influenzae type b septicemia - prior to the availability of the Hib vaccine.
Click for a larger image	MEASLES A histologic section of the lung of a child (autopsy). Hyaline membranes are present, preventing alveolar oxygen exchange resulting in respiratory failure.
Click for a larger image	MUMPS A child with mumps with swelling (edema) of the neck and pre-sternal area and erythema (cellulitis) of the neck area. Mumps meningoencephalitis and unilateral deafness were commonplace prior to routine immunization with the mumps vaccine.
Click for a larger image	RUBELLA This infant has the rash of congenital rubella (German measles). These infants are at great risk for severe mental retardation, deafness, blindness (atrophic eyes, cataracts and chorioretinitis) as well as congenital heart disease and other abnormalities. This disease has been nearly eradicated in the United States as the result of routine rubella vaccine use, whereas in earlier years as many as 20,000 infants were severely affected in a given year.
Click for a larger image	RUBELLA Congenital rubella with hemorrhagic lesions in the skin.
Click for a larger image	VARICELLA (CHICKENPOX) Varicella with oral and cutaneous involvement. This child's illness was more severe than her younger sibling, from whom she contracted the chickenpox.
Click for a larger image	VARICELLA (CHICKENPOX) Extensive varicella rash of child above.
Click for a larger image	VARICELLA (CHICKENPOX) Bullous varicella.
Click for a larger image	VARICELLA (CHICKENPOX) Hemorrhagic varicella in a newborn. The infant died of disseminated varicella involving most organ systems.
Click for a larger image	SMALLPOX Fatal smallpox in an infant prior to the eradication of the disease through worldwide administration of the smallpox vaccine.
Click for a larger image	TETANUS Neonatal tetanus with severe muscle contractions.

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