 Students are in a vulnerable age group for mumps |
Vaccines are being offered to thousands of students at the University of Bath after more than 12 students were struck with mumps. The illness was almost wiped out in the 1990s but has returned and is affecting teenagers and young adults who missed out on the vaccine as children.
Mumps is transmitted by direct contact with saliva or droplets from the saliva of an infected person.
Symptoms include headache and fever followed by swollen glands.
There is no treatment for mumps, only remedies to ease symptoms until the body's immune system clears the virus.
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