Phil Gingrey

States should require vaccinations for communicable diseases, like measles and the mumps. But you can't catch HPV if an infected schoolmate coughs on you or shares your juice box at lunch. Whether or not girls get vaccinated against HPV is a decision for parents and physicians, not state governments.

American Politician

Bonnie Bassler

Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered those pathogens, it ravaged the population, and now they're childhood diseases, and eventually they won't even be that. That's our relationship with bacteria, going through time.

American Scientist

Katha Pollitt

If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to stand your ethical ground: You have already benefited from fetal-tissue research. This is, after all, a practice that's been legal since the 1930s.

American Poet

Roger Moore

Illness played a great - and unwelcome - role in my early life. Mumps were soon followed by a raging sore throat, and it was decided that I should have my tonsils removed and adenoids scraped at the same time.

English Actor

Kelly Evans

Not enough children being vaccinated against measles, mumps, and rubella because their parents, for whatever reason, have decided that it is voluntary.

American Journalist

David Hewson

Viral infections, such as mumps, rubella and meningitis, cause inflammation of the inner ear or auditory nerve, resulting in permanent damage.

British Author

Jackie Coogan

I don't think its better to grow up normal and get the measles and mumps and have your front teeth knocked out.

Mumps can easily spread among people, especially in close-contact settings like schools.

Contagious Nature

When someone mentions mumps, often the noticeable symptom is swelling near the jaw.

Symptom Recognition

Mumps is preventable with a vaccine, which is common in childhood immunization schedules.

Vaccination Connection

 and large you develop a vaccine against measles mumps rubella hepatitis A hepatitis B and that vaccine will work for a very long time one of the greatest public health interventions in world history so our next question comes from

The trials, tribulations...

 and send them to top virology experts with one to design the vaccine for the next flu season. But why do we need a new one every year? Vaccines for diseases like mumps and rubella offer a lifetime of protection