DISEASE NAME:
Mumps
CATEGORY:
Vaccine Preventable
Mumps
Mumps is an acute viral infection that is spread from person to person. Mumps is a notifiable disease. Symptoms of mumps include fever, headache, tiredness and swollen, tender salivary glands (usually the parotid gland which is located just below the front of the ear). Mumps often gives the appearance of swollen cheeks or jaw. If you have mumps symptoms you should stay at home, not go to school or work and phone your GP and explain that you may have mumps. The best protection against mumps is to be fully vaccinated with 2 doses of the MMR (Measles-Mumps-Rubella) vaccine.
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Guidance
- Immunisation Guidelines for Ireland
- Mumps laboratory testing information - National Virus Reference Laboratory, UCD
Mumps FAQs for healthcare workers and healthcare students
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Publication Date: 18 February 2019
Mumps - Recognise, prevent spread and notify
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Publication Date: 12 March 2019
Management of Infectious Disease in Schools
Case definition
Clinical criteria
Any person with fever AND sudden onset of unilateral or bilateral tender swelling of the parotid or other salivary glands without other apparent cause. Mumps may also present as aseptic meningitis, encephalitis, hearing loss, orchitis, oophoritis, parotitis or other salivary gland swelling, mastitis or pancreatitis.
Laboratory criteria
At least one of the following three:
- Isolation of mumps virus from a clinical specimen
- Detection of mumps virus nucleic acid
- Mumps virus specific antibody response characteristic for acute infection in serum or saliva
Laboratory results need to be interpreted according to the vaccination status
Epidemiological criteria
An epidemiological link by human to human transmission
Case classification
A. Possible case
Any person meeting the clinical criteria
B. Probable case
Any person meeting the clinical criteria and with an epidemiological link
C. Confirmed case
Any person not recently vaccinated and meeting the laboratory criteria.
In the case of recent vaccination: any person with detection of wild-type mumps virus strain.
Current as of: 24 January 2019
Information, Data and Reports for Mumps
Ireland’s specialist service for the surveillance of communicable diseases.