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  2. Mumps virus - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, they showed that mumps could be transferred to children via filtered and sterilized, bacteria-less preparations of macerated monkey parotid tissue, showing that it was a viral disease. [ 2 ] [ 20 ] The mumps virus was isolated for the first time in 1945 and by 1948 the first mumps vaccine had been developed.

  3. Parotitis - Wikipedia

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    Acute viral parotitis (mumps): The most common viral cause of parotitis is mumps. Routine vaccinations have dropped the incidence of mumps to a very low level. Mumps resolves on its own in about ten days. A viral infection caused by Paramyxovirus, a single-stranded RNA virus. Common symptoms include fever, headache and bilateral or unilateral ...

  4. Breakthrough infection - Wikipedia

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    The mumps vaccine is a component of the Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccine (MMR). [11] The mumps vaccine, specifically, is 88% effective at preventing mumps. [12] Individuals with breakthrough cases of mumps have fewer serious complications from the infections as compared to individuals unvaccinated for mumps. [13]

  5. Should adults get booster shots of measles and other ... - AOL

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    Most vaccinated adults don’t need a booster for measles. Since 1989, U.S. advisory committees have recommended two doses of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine for all children. The ...

  6. List of human disease case fatality rates - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. Measles cases are rising in US as Texas outbreak grows ... - AOL

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    During the 2022-23 school year, 93% of children in kindergarten had met the vaccination requirements -- including for the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, according to a November 2023 CDC ...

  8. List of epidemics and pandemics - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Rubulavirinae - Wikipedia

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    The virus often infects children and adults who have evaded the virus during childhood. It is associated with mild upper respiratory symptoms and swelling of the salivary glands including the parotid gland. The virus also has the potential to infect testis, CNS and pancreas. [4]