Symptoms of Mumps
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Mumps is a viral illness caused by a Paramyxovirus. Symptoms of mumps include headache and sore throat. Sometimes people will develop difficulty swallowing. Fever is common.

Other mumps symptoms include weight loss and headache. Symptoms of mumps include tenderness and swelling of the parotid glands sometimes described as “chipmunk cheeks”.


Mumps can be associated with swelling and pain in the testicles known as orchitis. Other symptoms of mumps may include a maculopapular rash.

Approximately 40 to 50% of patients within mumps will have no symptoms of mumps. The time between exposure and development of symptoms is approximately 14 to 18 days. There are approximately 100 to 400 cases of mumps per year in the United States.


Mumps is still an extremely common disease in many countries of the world.

 
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Symptoms of Mumps often do not lead directly to the underlying diagnosis and many symptoms can be misleading. Please review all concerns and information found on this website with your health care provider.