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Detailed Information on Mumps
4077 October 22nd, 2008
Mumps is the disease with the longest incubation period and can take as long as three weeks from infection to outbreak.
Mumps is an infection caused by the mumps paramyxo virus. Virus is transmitted through airborne droplets from the coughs and sneezes of infected people. Humans are the only known natural hosts. It can end up almost everywhere - the kidneys, thyroid gland, pancreas, sexual glands and, not least, the salivary gland. Mumps most commonly occurs in children between age 2 and 12. It takes between 14-21 days for the symptoms of mumps to develop, after coming into contact with someone who has the virus.
