Mumps

[Sarah]

Sullenness; silent displeasure; the sulks. Skinner.

[Sarah]

When your testicles get inflamed and cause sterility.

[Sarah]

A very inconvenient disease.

[Donald Trump]

A contagious and infectious viral disease causing swelling of the parotid salivary glands in the face, and a risk of sterility in adult males.

[Hina Muqadas]

Mumps is a contagious viral infection that causes painful enlargement of the salivary glands. The infection may also affect the testes, brain, and pancreas, especially in adults.

Mumps is caused by a virus.
Symptoms include chills, headache, poor appetite, fever, and a feeling of illness, followed by swelling of the salivary glands.
The diagnosis is based on typical symptoms.
Most children recover with no problems, but infection can lead to meningitis or encephalitis.
Routine vaccination can prevent the infection.
Treatment is aimed at relieving symptoms.

Children become infected with mumps by breathing in small airborne droplets of moisture coughed out by an infected person or by having direct contact with objects contaminated by infected saliva. Mumps is less contagious than measles or chickenpox. In heavily populated areas, it occurs year-round but is most frequent in late winter and early spring.
Epidemics may occur when people without immunity are crowded together. However, small outbreaks have occurred among people who have been vaccinated, probably because some people (about 10 to 12%) do not develop immunity after vaccination and, in some others, immunity may decrease over time. Some people may not complete the recommended vaccination. Before routine immunization, mumps occurred most commonly in school-aged children. Now, however, the infection has become more common among adolescents and adults because of waning immunity.
In 1967, before children were routinely vaccinated against mumps, there were 186,000 cases of mumps in the United States. Since vaccination began, the number of cases has decreased significantly. However, mumps still occurs. A 2006 mumps outbreak in the midwestern United States caused more than 6,584 cases. Young adults had the highest infection rates, which highlighted the need for continued use of vaccination. Since that time, sporadic outbreaks, mainly at college campuses and in other close-knit communities, have contributed to cases fluctuating from a low of 229 in 2012 to high of 6,109 in 2017.
The infection does not usually occur in children younger than 2 years, particularly those younger than 1 year. One infection with the mumps virus usually provides lifelong immunity.
Like measles, mumps may be imported by travelers or immigrants, who then transmit the infection, especially in places where many people group together (such as college campuses) or communities that limit contact with outsiders (such as traditional-observant Jewish communities, Amish, and Mennonites).