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 ...

ATLANTA — With the U.S. facing a growing number of mumps outbreaks, an expert panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Wednesday that people who are at risk during ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Swollen glands below the ears are a classic sign of mumps There has been a sharp increase in cases of mumps this year in England - but the viral illness which can cause swollen glands (and, more ...

While the US grapples with a measles outbreak unlike any we’ve seen in decades, Indiana University has a different problem on its hands: mumps. At least 16 cases have been reported at the Bloomington ...

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 ...

More than two months ago, a nasty mumps virus triggered fever, headache and painfully swollen glands among a handful of students at Ohio State University. Now the outbreak has ballooned to 234 cases ...

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 ...