Immunization - Preventable Diseases

What is Mumps?

Mumps can be serious. It lasts for several days and is easily passed from person to person by sneezing, coughing or close contact. Mumps can cause fever, headache, swollen painful glands under the jaw, swelling of the coverings of the brain or spinal cord and hearing loss.

About one of every four teen-age or adult males with mumps will have painful swelling of the testicles for several days, but this usually does not result in sterility.

Last Updated: 5/5/00

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