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Mumps vaccine is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. [10] [11] There are a number of different types in use as of 2007. [1] Mumpsvax is Merck's brand of Jeryl Lynn strain vaccines. [12] [13] It is a component of Merck's three-virus MMR vaccine, and is the mumps vaccine standard in the United States. [14]
Jeryl Lynn are strains of mumps virus used in the Mumpsvax mumps vaccine made by Merck. The strains are named after Jeryl Lynn Hilleman. In 1963, Jeryl's father, Maurice Hilleman, was leading efforts to produce a mumps vaccine for Merck. He cultured the mumps virus from her throat, and in 1967 a vaccine was produced which is now widely used. [1]
The disease was likely called mumps in reference to the swelling caused by mumps parotitis, reflecting its impact on facial expressions as well as its causing of painful, difficult swallowing. "Mumps" was also used starting from the 17th century to mean "a fit of melancholy, sullenness, silent displeasure". [17] [22]
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Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.
Not included in the above table are many waves of deadly diseases brought by Europeans to the Americas and Caribbean. Western Hemisphere populations were ravaged mostly by smallpox, but also typhus, measles, influenza, bubonic plague, cholera, malaria, tuberculosis, mumps, yellow fever, and pertussis. The lack of written records in many places ...
Mumps virus: Mumps: Antibody testing, viral cultures, and reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction Supportive: Yes: Rickettsia typhi: Murine typhus (Endemic typhus) Early diagnosis continued to be based on clinical suspicion. The most effective antibiotics include tetracycline and chloramphenicol. No Mycoplasma pneumoniae: Mycoplasma ...