This is a fascinating story in itself. Basically, in 1963, Maurice Hilleman of the drug company, Merck & Co., took samples of the mumps virus from his daughter, who had contracted the disease.

Joint statement from Albemarle Regional Health Services and Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools Mumps is a contagious disease caused by a virus. Due to the access to the MMR vaccine ...

Mumps is a contagious disease caused by a virus that primarily affects children but could also infect adolescents and adults. It mostly causes the parotid salivary glands on one or both sides of ...

Before the introduction of the mumps vaccine in 1967 in the U.S., more than 90 percent of children and adolescents came down with the infection. Although that percentage plummeted in the 1970s, the ...

It is based on a previously established method called mutational scanning: Each mutation found in the new variant is introduced separately into the original virus to generate a library of virus ...

NEILLSVILLE, Wis. (CLARK COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT) - Mumps, a contagious disease, has been confirmed in Clark County Monday afternoon. It causes the glands in and around your mouth that produce ...

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