Texas health officials are warning the public that thousands of cheerleaders may have been exposed to mumps at a national competition in Dallas last month. Competitors from 39 states and nine ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Mumps is a contagious viral infection that spreads through saliva or mucus from the mouth, nose, or throat. It primarily affects and cause swelling in the saliva-producing ...

Those who attended the cheerleading competition should be monitored for symptoms through March 22. How the virus spreads Mumps is spread by saliva or germs spread in the air through a cough or sneeze.

Cases of mumps, once a common childhood illness, declined by more than 99 percent in the U.S. after a vaccine against the highly contagious respiratory infection was developed in 1967.

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