Inoculations protect us from diseases
that killed Hawaiians

• Measles
• Mumps
• Chicken Pox
• Hepatitis
• Typhoid Fever
• Tuberculosis

Even those diseases now considered childhood sicknesses were deadly to Hawaiians at the time of Western contact. Today, most island residents have been exposed to different kinds of disease and have built up immunities. Through childhood inoculations (controlled exposure), individuals adjust to weaker strains of a disease by developing immune systems that protect them for the rest of their life.