MUMPS VIRUS

GROUP - V

ORDER - Mononegavirales

FAMILY - Paramyxoviridae

GENUS - Rubulavirus

GENOME - Linear, single-segment, single-stranded RNA of about 15,000 nucleotides, encoding nine proteins

GEOGRAPHY - Worldwide

HOSTS - Humans

ASSOCIATED DISEASES - Mumps, occasionally meningitis

TRANSMISSION - Respiratory droplets and close contact, highly contagious Live attenuated,

VACCINE -often given with measles and rubella (MMR)

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Controlled by immunization In children, mumps starts with a fever and malaise, followed by a swelling of the parotid glands in the sides of the neck. Mumps is an old word for grimacing, describing the look of the swollen neck that occurs during the disease. It was once a normal part of childhood to have mumps, along with other childhood diseases, but a vaccine was introduced in the 1960s that has dramatically reduced the incidence of disease in most of the developed world. In adults the disease can be more severe, causing painful testicular swelling in adult males, and occasional ovarian inflammation in females. A significant number of infected people show no symptoms, however.

As with other parts of the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine, there have been anti-vaccine campaigns. Much of this was the result of a paper claiming a link between MMR and autism, but this was later debunked, and the vaccine is deemed safe by the US CDC (Center for Disease Control) and the WHO (World Health Organization), both of whom strongly recommend vaccination for all children who are not immunocompromised. Mumps and other viral diseases of childhood have been linked to Reye’s syndrome, a potentially fatal disease that can cause damage to many organs. Some studies have linked Reye’s syndrome to the use of aspirin in children with a viral infection, but it can occur in children who have not been given aspirin as well. It is named after Dr. R. Douglas Reye, who, along with colleagues, described the syndrome in the 1960s.

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