Mumps

Mumps cases and vaccination recommendations

• Georgia is currently seeing an increase in mumps cases.
• The median age of cases is 21.9 years old (range: 1 year - 81 years)
• 3 outbreaks have occurred in various settings including a university/college campus. 
• There are no special vaccination recommendations at this time. Give MMR vaccine based on the recommended vaccination schedule.

Mumps is a contagious disease that is caused by the mumps virus. Mumps typically starts with a few days of fever, headache, muscle aches, tiredness, and loss of appetite, and is followed by swelling of salivary glands. Anyone who is not immune from either previous mumps infection of from vaccination can get mumps.

• Mumps Basics
• Mumps Information for Healthcare Professionals
• Mumps Statistics

Mumps Health Advisories

The Georgia Department of Public Health issued the below Mumps Health Advisories on January 19, 2017.

• Mumps Health Advisory for Healthcare Providers
• Mumps Health Advisory for Colleges and Universities

Mumps Basics

General information about mumps, including symptoms, complications, treatment and vaccination.

• About Mumps
  General information from the CDC about mumps, including transmission, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment. Also includes photos.

Reporting

• Reporting Mumps
  All suspect cases of mumps should be reported to the Georgia Department of Public Health. Find out more about what needs to be reported, who needs to report diseases, which forms to use and where to find out more about the disease.

Vaccine Information

• Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) Vaccine Information Statement (VIS)
  CDC Vaccine Information Statement: includes a description of the disease, who should get the vaccine and when, who should not be vaccinated, and potential side effects.

• MMR: What You Need to Know

Mumps Information for Health Professionals

Information on mumps for health professionals, including clinical features and epidemiology, how to report cases, vaccine information, and official recommendations.

Clinical Features and Epidemiology

• Clinical Information
  Information about mumps, including clinical features, medical management, antibiotics and preventive measures.

• Manual for the Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Disease, 5th Edition, 2012
  Mumps chapter in the CDC’s Manual for the Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases.

Mumps Laboratory Testing

Mumps should be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients presenting with parotitis or swelling of the salivary glands, regardless of vaccination history. DPH encourages health care providers to consider other infectious and non-infectious causes of parotitis, since negative lab results cannot be used to rule out mumps infection.

If mumps is suspected, laboratory testing should be performed. Acute mumps infection can be detected by the presence of serum mumps IgM, a significant rise in IgG antibody titer in acute and convalescent-phase serum specimens, IgG seroconversion, positive mumps virus culture, or detection of virus by real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR).

• Mumps Specimen Collection and Submission Guidelines
• Georgia Public Health Laboratory Specimen Submission Form

Reporting

• Reporting Mumps
  All suspect cases of mumps should be reported to the Georgia Department of Public Health. Find out more about what needs to be reported, who needs to report diseases, which forms to use and where to find out more about the disease.

• Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) Vaccine Information Statement (VIS)
  CDC Vaccine Information Statement: includes a description of the disease, who should get the vaccine and when, who should not be vaccinated, and potential side effects.

• MMR: What You Need to Know

Mumps Statistics

Georgia is currently seeing an increase in mumps cases.

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Page last updated 10/26/2018