This year we celebrate 50 years of mumps vaccination in America, helping to make chipmunk cheeks and swollen testicles a thing of our nation's past. Mumps quarantine sign, from sometime after 1909 ...

Thousands of cheerleaders may have been exposed to mumps during a national cheerleading competition in Dallas last month. The Texas Department of State Health Services sent a letter to everyone who ...

For the first time in seven years, a Whatcom County resident has a confirmed case of mumps. The case presents no risk to the general public, according to a statement from Whatcom County. Health ...

On Monday, the Arkansas Department of Health increased the number of mumps cases under investigation in the state to 476, which is up from Friday’s count of 427. More than 30 schools across three ...

Officials with Public Health – Seattle and King County are now investigating 130 cases of the mumps as of Wednesday, marking a 17 case increase since Dec. 30. Of the 130 cases, 47 are confirmed and 83 ...

Fifty years ago, mumps was once a childhood rite of passage of puffy cheeks and swollen jaws. That all changed with the arrival of a vaccine in the late 1960s, and mumps nearly disappeared. But now ...

The Hawaii Department of Health said a case of mumps has been confirmed in an individual on Hawaii island. Health officials said Monday that this case is community-acquired, and not travel-related, ...

As the measles outbreak in Texas spreads, attention is turning to what is commonly called the MMR vaccine. The vaccine is the only way to prevent measles, but it also prevents other illnesses. The ...