Every once in a while, news of a mumps outbreak makes headlines. The highly contagious viral disease has popped up on college campuses across the U.S. and even among players on the 2014 Pittsburgh ...

Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins was formally diagnosed with the mumps last week, bringing one of the NHL’s strangest medical stories in years to the forefront of hockey conversation. Not one ...

The East Central Health Department’s Columbus Office will be hosting a measles, mumps and rubella vaccination clinic on ...

Mumps cases are on the rise in the U.S., and a growing number of schools and college campuses are reporting outbreaks. A recent U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report shows that mumps ...

An extra dose of the combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine can help to stop mumps outbreaks, a new study suggests. The research, published in the New England Journal of Medicine and based on ...

Texas health officials are warning the public about a possible mumps exposure. Texas health officials are warning the public that thousands of cheerleaders may have been exposed to mumps at a national ...

The mumps vaccine doesn’t protect people as long as it needs to — only an average 27 years, according to a new study in Science Translational Medicine. But a booster dose at age 18 should be a ...

Mumps during pregnancy may be understandably more worrying than when it occurs in the general population. This statement is especially true considering the results from a study done in the late 1960s, ...

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A nearly forgotten virus has made a comeback. Mumps sickened nearly 1,100 Americans this year, causing outbreaks among college students and professional hockey players. Nearly twice as many Americans ...

The MMR vaccine, given in two doses to children, protects against the measles, mumps and rubella. Yet the United States and Europe have seen more than a few outbreaks of mumps, a contagious viral ...