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Poliomyelitis.
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What virus attacks the nervous system?
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What childhood disease causes the salivary glands in the jaw to swell dramatically?
Mumps causes salivary glands to swell dramatically.
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Tay-Sachs disease eventaully causes the child to develops problems with breathing and swallowing. Blindness, paralysis, and death follow.
