The word 'mumps' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It's a common noun meaning an infectious disease caused by a virus and marked by inflammation of the salivary glands.You can use it when talking about the disease or referring to someone who is suffering from mumps. For example, "I heard Sarah has mumps and had to miss a week of school."
(Mumps were mumps in the 1950s).
I learned to read during the three weeks I was away from school with a spectacular case of mumps.
The charity said across the 10 countries, less than half of the children seen in its consultations were properly immunised against tetanus, measles, mumps and rubella and more than half pregnant women had not had access to antenatal care until they were well into their second trimester.
Health officials are worried that the discussion itself could scare more parents into shunning them.This actually happened in Britain in 2002, after the idea of a link between the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism was first publicised.
In 1998 91% of two-year-olds were immunised, but by 2004 that had fallen to 80%, far below the 90% rate needed to keep the disease under control.Reluctance to vaccinate stems from a health scare surrounding MMR, a three-in-one vaccine designed to protect children from measles, mumps and rubella.
Perhaps, if the subject ever achieves respectability, media-studies undergraduates will pore over the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine scare in 21st-century Britain.On November 28th the Health Protection Agency HPAA), which monitors infectious diseases, said that there were 1,049 cases of measles in England and Wales in the ten months to October 2008.
In Britain a doctor was banned from practising after falsely claiming that the triple vaccine used against measles, mumps and rubella might cause autism.
A successful meme, he speculated, might pass from person to person like a virus.Few recent memes have been more successful than the one which causes many people, particularly in Britain, to believe that the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine can cause autism in children.
The beginning of the rise in diagnosis also precedes the introduction of combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccines, which some have suggested may help to trigger the disease.Even before the criteria for diagnosis were broadened, though, autism was known as a highly variable disorder.
The consequence has been a rise in the incidence of measles and mumps, as the so-called "herd immunity" which mass vaccination brings has broken down.
