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Mumps
About Mumps
Causes painful swollen salivary glands. Hippocrates described it around 410 BC. Can cause meningitis, hearing loss, and painful testicular inflammation in adult men, which occasionally affects fertility. The vaccine introduced in 1967 cut US cases by 99%. Outbreaks still occur in crowded settings.
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