Vaccine Safety
Fifth Disease Featured on ER
Published in Vaccine Weekly, November 7th, 2007
A very interesting story about a new potentially dangerous human virus, Fifth diseases, will be aired on the episode of ER (Under the Influence (October 25, 2007; NBC)). Fifth disease gets its name by being the fifth childhood disease that we can expect to catch, after measles etc. This episode shows a case of a pregnant woman who had contracted fifth disease (caused by a virus called parvovirus B19), from the school where she worked. In this case the baby was saved by the medical team, but this is not always the outcome of this infection - an infection that affects the majority of us in childhood.
The disease is characterized by a facial rash that looks like the cheeks...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2007-11-07)
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