What kind of dieseses can stop a child's heart?

Answer 1

Actual stopping of the heart is not usually the direct result of a specific disease process, but it more the result of other problems the disease induces. Actual sudden-onset asystole occurs more frequently as the result of a trauma or accident instead of a disease process. Diseases -- even Heart diseases -- usually have a slower onset, and have precursor symptoms, which one hopes to discover before the event. For common infantile diseases that can attack the heart, Rubella or Scarlet Fever came to mind but, as I look at the research, the number of Rubella related infant deaths since 1969, when the vaccine was invented, is extraordinarily low.