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Mumps Symptoms

Signs and symptoms
... About one-third of people infected with the mumps virus have no signs or symptoms. When signs and symptoms do develop, they usually appear about two to three weeks after exposure to the virus and may ...

Causes
... The cause of mumps is the mumps virus, which spreads easily from person to person through infected saliva. If you''re not immune, you can contract mumps by breathing in saliva droplets of an infected ...

Mumps Prevention

Prevention
... In general, you''re considered immune to mumps if you''ve previously had the infection or if you''ve been immunized against mumps. The mumps vaccine is usually given as a combined measles-mumps-rubell...

Mumps Treatment

Complications
... Complications of mumps are potentially serious, but rare. These include: Orchitis. This inflammatory condition causes swelling of one or both testicles. Orchitis is painful, but it rarely leads to ste...

Treatment
... Because mumps is caused by a virus, antibiotics are not an effective treatment. Like most viral illnesses, mumps infection must simply run its course. Fortunately, most children and adults recover fro...

Mumps Other

Mumps
... Mumps is a viral illness characterized by fever, swelling, and tenderness of one or more salivary glands, usually the parotid and sometimes the sublingual or submaxillary glands. Before the vaccine wa...