{"id":18195,"date":"2026-03-07T12:49:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18195"},"modified":"2026-03-07T15:08:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:38:58","slug":"mumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mumps\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Mumps Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Health officials in Maryland, United States recently issued an alert after confirming an uptick in mumps cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Mumps<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>contagious disease <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">caused by the <\/span><b>mumps virus<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which belongs to a group of viruses known as paramyxoviruses.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can cause<\/span><b> painful swelling in your parotid salivary glands (parotitis).\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Transmission<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Humans <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are the <\/span><b>only known host for the mumps virus<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is <\/span><b>spread from person to person by drops<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of moisture <\/span><b>from the nose and mouth, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">such as through sneezing.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also <\/span><b>spread through direct contact with items that have infected saliva<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on them.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mumps occurs worldwide and <\/span><b>usually affects children and young adults.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Incubation period<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Typically 16 to 18 days; ranging from<\/span><b> 12 to 25 days.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Symptoms<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Face pain<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fever<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Headache<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sore throat<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loss of appetite<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Swelling of the parotid glands<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (the<\/span><b> largest salivary glands, located between the ear and the jaw)<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Swelling of the temples or jaw<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (temporomandibular area)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Normally <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mumps is a <\/span><b>mild, self-limiting disease<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>disappears without sequelae.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, <\/span><b>complications may occur,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> such as <\/span><b>encephalitis or sensorineural deafness.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Orchitis <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(a <\/span><b>painful inflammation of the testes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) <\/span><b>occurs in 20% of young adult males <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who develop mumps.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Treatment<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: There is <\/span><b>no specific treatment<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for mumps. The various symptoms may be relieved with medicines.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Prevention<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Vaccination <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is the main preventive measure against mumps.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>MMR immunization (vaccine) protects against measles, mumps, and rubella.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/05\/health\/mumps-virus-vaccine-wellness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>CNN<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumps is a contagious disease caused by the mumps virus, which belongs to a group of viruses known as paramyxoviruses. Read more about Mumps, Transmission, Symptoms, Treatment, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":91418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5907],"class_list":{"0":"post-18195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-mumps","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91468,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18195\/revisions\/91468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}