Mumps

Introduction: Mumps

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Mumps: An acute viral disease that causes the salivary glands to become swollen, sore and inflamed. Immunization had greatly reduced the incidence of this disease. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Mumps is available below.

Symptoms of Mumps

• Fever
• Chills
• Malaise
• Headache
• Sore throat

See full list of 22 symptoms of Mumps

Medical Textbooks Online about Mumps

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Mumps?

• Misdiagnosis of Mumps

Causes of Mumps

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Treatments for Mumps

• Supportive treatments
• Pain relief
• Analgesics
• Paracetamol
• Bed rest

See full list of 9 treatments for Mumps

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Prognosis for Mumps

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Reseach about Mumps

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Clinical Trials for Mumps

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Mumps include:

• A Study of 2 Doses of Menactra, a Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Healthy Toddlers - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Assess GSK Biologicals' MMR Vaccine (Priorix) When Given to Healthy Children at the Age of 12 to 18 Months in Singapore. - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Immunogenicity and Safety of Hepatitis A Vaccine Given at the Same Time of Measles, Mumps, Rubella Combined Vaccine - This study is not yet open for patient recruitment (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Immunogenicity and Safety of a Combined Vaccine to Prevent Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Chickenpox Diseases - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Immunogenicity and Safety of a Combined Vaccine to Prevent Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Chickenpox Diseases - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006)

See full list of 20 Clinical Trials for Mumps

Prevention of Mumps

Prevention information for Mumps has been compiled from various data sources and may be inaccurate or incomplete. None of these methods guarantee prevention of Mumps.

• MMR vaccination
• MMR vaccination
• Mumps vaccination

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Statistics for Mumps

• Medical statistics for Mumps
• Prevalence and incidence statistics for Mumps
• Death and Mortality statistics for Mumps
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Article Excerpts about Mumps

Measles, mumps, and rubella were once very common diseases in the United States, but they have become rare because of the use of vaccines to prevent them. As with many other diseases, measles, mumps, and rubella generally are more severe in adults than in children. Most adults are immune to all three infections because they had them (or a vaccine) as children. (Source: excerpt from Shots for Safety - Age Page - Health Information: NIA)

Definitions of Mumps:

Acute, inflammatory, contagious disease caused by Rubulavirus and characterized by swelling of the salivary glands, especially the parotids, and sometimes of the pancreas, ovaries, or testes; spread by direct contact, airborne droplet nuclei, fomites contaminated by infectious saliva, and perhaps urine. - (Source - Diseases Database)

An acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands - (Source - WordNet 2.1)