Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every once in a while, news of a mumps outbreak makes headlines. The highly contagious viral disease has popped up on college ...

Measles is not the only vaccine-preventable disease making headlines. Health officials in Maryland have issued an alert after confirming an uptick in mumps cases — 26 reported so far this year as of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you're among the 74 million baby boomers born in the U.S. between 1946 and 1964, your chances of having acquired the mumps as a ...

The mumps vaccine doesn’t protect people as long as it needs to — only an average 27 years, according to a new study in Science Translational Medicine. But a booster dose at age 18 should be a ...

ATLANTA — With the U.S. facing a growing number of mumps outbreaks, an expert panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Wednesday that people who are at risk during ...

New Jersey officials are warning residents to stay alert after eight cases of mumps were reported in Hunterdon County, located in the western part of the state. The outbreak of the “highly contagious” ...

Public health officials have reported 34 mumps cases in the United States so far this year, including 19 confirmed and 7 probable cases in Maryland. The main symptom of mumps is puffiness along the ...

Up to 10% of mumps infections in teenagers or older people may cause complications Given recommended doses of MMR vaccine, protection lasts on average 27 years The MMR vaccine, given in two doses to ...

Mumps has an incubation period that ranges from 12 – 25 days. While the earlier part of this period is not infectious, mumps-affected people become contagious a few days before the onset of the signs ...

A mumps outbreak at Harvard University that began in early March has climbed to 41 cases as of Thursday, and could impact the school’s May 26th graduation ceremony and other campus events. Harvard ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I offer straight talk on science, medicine, health and vaccines. So what's going on? Isn't there a vaccine for mumps? Weren't ...

SPRINGDALE, Ark. — For a while, it seemed like the mumps outbreak engulfing this northwestern Arkansas city would never end. “The doors would fly open at 9 o’clock in the morning and the lobby would ...