As the bus pulled up to the bus stop, the mother quickly kissed her daughter as she headed out the door. It was hard to believe she was in 5th grade and already talking about how some of her friends had crushes on boys. It would not be long now before her daughter would be…
The toddler is sweating with a fever and crying. She has not eaten in a couple of days and she has swollen glands on either side of her face. Her parents look on anxiously and try to get her fever down. Unfortunately the disease progresses and the little girl becomes deaf. In the 1950’s it…
It starts off innocently enough as the four month old baby starts having a runny nose, mild cough, and low grade fever. It sounds like a typical cold and one which most parents don’t worry about. Unfortunately, this is not an ordinary cold as the disease goes into the second week and the cough becomes…