Mumps has always been a viral disease, so origins are now known. It was first described by Hippocrates in the 5th century BCE
Mumps wasn't used as anything. Mumps is a disease, and was at first very lethal.
Somewhere around the 16th century, the word mump meant to grimace. And people who have the mumps could appear to grimace. That is where it came from.
A person infected with mumps can spread the virus to a non-infected person from approximately 3 days before symptoms appear, to 5 days after swelling of the salivary glands.
Hippocrates an ancient Greek physician described an outbreak of mumps in the 5th century B.C..
Mumps.
Maurice Hilleman developed the first effective mumps vaccine in 1963. It was tested and became commercially available in 1967. It was created from live mumps viruses. Before that, starting in 1950, there had been a vaccine made from killed mumps viruses but it was not very effective or long-lasting.
you pronounce the word mumps as : mumps, just as it's spelled.
Mumps is not a STD.
UNFOTUNATELY-Mumps can kill you
all people can get the mumps
the mumps could kill you
Mumps is caused by Mumps virus (MuV).