Other symptoms may include testicular pain (in males), abdominal pain, seizures, stiff neck, and difficulty swallowing. Orchitis (inflammation of one or both testicles) is the most feared complication of mumps. This condition causes severe pain, swelling, and tenderness in a male's testicles. Or...
Born before 1956: Generally, these individuals are believed to have experienced mumps infection in childhood. However, if they did not, they are at risk for adult mumps disease. Adult mumps is associated with a more intense disease and a higher rate of certain side effects (such as inflammatio...
Birthdate— Specifically, being born before 1956. While people born during this period are believed to have had mumps in their childhood, not being exposed to the disease in the past makes them at risk for adult mumps disease. Adult mumps is linked to a more severe disease and a higher ra...
Mumps, Orchitis, Vaccination, Young adultIntroduction and Objectives The mumps virus is a single-stranded, non-segmented, negative-sense RNA virus belonging to the Paramyxoviridae family. Mumps is preventable by vaccination, but despite high vaccination coverage, epidemics occur in several locations. ...
The symptoms described, parotid gland swelling mainly in males, occasional swelling of one or both testicles with fever in some cases, was remarkably persuasive of a mumps etiology. However, Hippocrates makes no mention ofneurological symptomsand it would have to wait until the 18thcentury before ...
Mumps is an airborne virus and can be spread by:an infected person coughing or sneezing and releasing tiny droplets of contaminated saliva, which can then be breathed in by another person. How do doctors treat mumps? Treatment for mumps is focused on relieving symptoms until your body's immune...
Mumps is an infectious viral disease caused by a virus called paramyxovirus. It is a contagious disease that results in swelling of the parotid salivary glands in the face. It also creates a risk of sterility in adult males. Mumps are not common in some developed countries like the United St...
PMO2 = patients 61 to 431 days after the onset of clinical symptoms; TS-MO = patients in the acute phase of the disease, sampled twice; TS-PMO = the same patients sampled after the disease; BD = blood donors; INF = males with unexplained infertility; OD = optical density; SIV = sper...
Although the diagnosis of mumps is primarily based on clinical symptoms, other viral infections such as parainfluenza can manifest in a similar manner. Therefore, laboratory confirmation of mumps virus infection is important. Objectives The aims of this study were to examine mumps cases during the ...