Any childhood infectious disease could wipe out thousands, maybe millions.

When they finally did meet again, what one population considered a minor childhood disease could be fatal to the other.

Yet vaccines against these and three other childhood diseases are available at a cost of about $10 per child.

Due to a childhood disease he had almost no vision in his right eye.

I had been led to believe that chicken pox was a childhood disease.

Every March people all over the country would walk around raising money for "childhood diseases."

He noted that parents used to hold parties to expose their children to some childhood diseases.

They said children in these countries had just begun to benefit from international campaigns against childhood diseases.

A think tank concerned with the spread of childhood disease?

It might have started as the familiar childhood disease, but had become something else.