Why an infectious & contagious disease of the childhood, such as mumps or measles, is more serious if it attacks an adult than a child, their consequences being more grave in the adults?

Why an infectious & contagious disease of the childhood, such as mumps or measles, is more serious if it attacks an adult than a child, their consequences being more grave in the adults?

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the problem with mumps is that, if it affects testes, might cause infertility, and the problem with measles and other exantematic feverish viruses is the higher probability of causing pneumonia; varicella causes serious simptoms for the lower tolerance to them in adults :P; mononucleosis might cause hepatitis in adults, so the simptoms are more serious, but this hepatitis resolves without consequences...

the problem with mumps is that, if it affects testes, might cause infertility, and the problem with measles and other exantematic feverish viruses is the higher probability of causing pneumonia; varicella causes serious simptoms for the lower tolerance to them in adults :P; mononucleosis might cause hepatitis in adults, so the simptoms are more serious, but this hepatitis resolves without consequences...

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