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Authored by: Alan Hecht, D.C.
From the Series: Deadly Diseases and Epidemics
Dewey Number: 616
Reading Level: Grades 9 and up
Once a common childhood illness, mumps, also known as epidemic parotitis, has become less frequent since the development of an effective vaccine that has greatly diminished the occurrence of the disease in the United States. Even with the mumps vaccination program, however, outbreaks of mumps continue to occur throughout the United States. Many nations do not have an effective mumps vaccination program, and infants, children, and young adults in these locations are at risk for developing not only viral meningitis from the mumps virus but other complications following infection, including inflammation of the testes and ovaries, pancreatitis, myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle), and deafness. Mumps covers the history of the disease, its current treatment, its prevention, and the forecasts for controlling mumps worldwide.
Chapters and topics include:
An Overview of Mumps
The History of Mumps
The Mumps Virus
Epidemiology of Mumps
Mumps Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Complications
Treatment and Prevention of Mumps
The Future of Mumps.
Alan Hecht, D.C., is a practicing chiropractor in New York. He is also an adjunct professor at Farmingdale State College, Nassau Community College, and the C. W. Post campus of Long Island University. He teaches courses in medical microbiology, health and human disease, anatomy and physiology, comparative anatomy, human physiology, human nutrition, embryology, and general biology.
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