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Mumps
Title: Mumps
Category: Recreation & Sports / Health Care
Details: Words: 261 | Pages: 1.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Mumps
MUMPS
Mumps is a disease caused by a virus and occurs only in human beings. Mumps is found all over the world. Mumps is a contagious disease when the salivary glands, on one or both sides of the jaw, swells. Mumps usually occurs in school age children, but young adults may catch the disease. Everyone born before1957 has already had mumps. After one attack of mumps, you will have lifelong immunity. The mumps virus is …showed first 75 words of 261 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 261 total…will have inflammation of the ovaries. Extremely rare cases will result in sterility. Mumps is diagnosed by symptoms, but a blood, urine or saliva test can confirm that you have the virus. Treatment of the virus includes diet of soft foods, bed rest, and pain relievers. The mumps vaccine is given to children that are about twelve months old. The vaccine is usually conbined with measles and rubella vaccines, which is called the MMR vaccine.
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