DES MOINES, Iowa -- A state immunization program meant to combat a mumps epidemic will expand to include all Iowans ages 18 to 46, public health officials said Wednesday. It's the third phase of a ...

Mumps is a disease caused by a type of Rubulavirus, which is a genus of the Paramyxovirus family. The viral infection causes the salivary glands at the base and back of the jaw to swell, which causes ...

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 ...

April 26, 2006 — -- At the epicenter of the mumps epidemic in Iowa, a massive effort to vaccinate 25,000 people is now under way. "We're over 1,000 cases now, and we're not seeing a let up yet," ...

MUNCIE, Ind. — In the first two months of this year more than 1,000 cases of mumps were reported to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cases have been reported in 37 states and ...

Health officials are warning thousands of people who attended a national cheerleading competition in Texas last month to be on the lookout for signs and symptoms of mumps. A person with the virus ...

HOUSTON – The Unites States mumps vaccination program was started in 1967, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Around that time, the CDC said more than 185,000 cases were ...

On June 5, 2020, the U.S Centers for Disease Control (CDC) published the details of a recent multistate outbreak of mumps in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). The outbreak involved 62 ...

Mumps cases have hit a 20-year high in Texas and the highly contagious virus is infecting spring break travelers to popular beaches, state health officials said Wednesday. The virus is rarely deadly ...