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Summary

Mumps is an illness caused by the mumps virus. It starts with:

• Fever
• Headache
• Muscle aches
• Tiredness
• Loss of appetite

After that, the salivary glands under the ears or jaw become swollen and tender. The swelling can be on one or both sides of the face. Symptoms last 7 to 10 days. Serious complications are rare.

You can catch mumps by being with another person who has it. There is no treatment for mumps, but the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine can prevent it.

Before the routine vaccination program in the United States, mumps was a common illness in infants, children and young adults. Now it is a rare disease in the U.S.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Start Here

• About Mumps (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Mumps (American Academy of Family Physicians)
• Mumps (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) Also in Spanish

Symptoms

• Mumps Symptoms and Complications (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Diagnosis and Tests

• Measles and Mumps Tests (National Library of Medicine) Also in Spanish

Prevention and Risk Factors

• MMR Vaccine (Measles, Mumps, and Rubella): What You Need to Know (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - PDF Also in Spanish
• MMRV Vaccine (Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella): What You Need to Know (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - PDF Also in Spanish
• Mumps Vaccination (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Protect Yourself Against Mumps (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - PDF

Related Issues

• Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) Vaccine Safety (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Statistics and Research

• Mumps Cases and Outbreaks (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Clinical Trials

• ClinicalTrials.gov: Mumps (National Institutes of Health)

Journal Articles References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)

• Article: Comparative long-term follow-up study of persistence of immunity after JVC-001 measles,...
• Article: Modeling mumps incidence in China: spatiotemporal clusters and evolving risk factors...
• Article: Trend dynamics of mumps prevalence among children aged 1-9 years in...
• Mumps -- see more articles

Find an Expert

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Also in Spanish
• National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Children

• Mumps (For Parents) (Nemours Foundation)

Men

• Orchitis (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)

Women

• Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) Vaccine (In Pregnancy and While Breastfeeding) (Organization of Teratology Information Specialists) Also in Spanish

Patient Handouts

• MMR Vaccine (Measles, Mumps, and Rubella): What You Need to Know (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - PDF Also in Spanish
• MMRV Vaccine (Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella): What You Need to Know (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - PDF Also in Spanish
• Mumps (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
• Orchitis (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish