The mumps vaccine is used to help prevent this disease in children.

The mumps vaccine is about 95% effective, states the web site of Iowa's public health department.

He cultivated material from her, and used it as the basis of a mumps vaccine.

A woman should avoid becoming pregnant for at least 3 months after receiving a mumps vaccine.

Many doctors were similarly skeptical about the mumps vaccine when it was introduced in 1968.

As noted below, two doses of mumps vaccine are more effective than a single dose.

You should not receive a mumps vaccine if you are pregnant.

Like any vaccine, the mumps vaccine may not provide protection from disease in every person.

Tell any doctor who treats you if you have received a mumps vaccine within the past 4 to 6 weeks.

A different monovalent Mumps vaccine is routinely used in Russia.

The Jeryl Lynn strain of the mumps vaccine is still used today.

In exaggerated terms, this is like immunizing with a mumps vaccine and expecting protection from measles.

One single mumps vaccine preparation imported into the United Kingdom proved to be essentially ineffective.

Mumps vaccines are normally refrigerated, but have a long half-life of 65 days at 23 degrees Celsius.

Mumpsvax is a mumps vaccine made of mumps virus.

See this page for discussion of previous and other Mumps vaccines including the abandoned Urabe strain.

Before the mumps vaccine existed, mumps was a common childhood disease in the United States.

As with the chickenpox vaccine, a second dose of the mumps vaccine extends the immune response into adulthood.

And the protective effect of the mumps vaccine wears off, unlike mumps itself, which affords lifetime immunity.

Mumps vaccine is included in MMR.

If most children do not get mumps children who do not get the mumps vaccine are also safe.

Before the introduction of the mumps vaccine, the mumps virus was the leading cause of viral meningoencephalitis in the United States.

Although mumps is not common, it can spread to people who have not received the mumps vaccine (measles, mumps, and rubella series).

"Maybe the immunity generated by the mumps vaccine can wane and then you become newly susceptible, particularly if you encounter a large dose of virus," he said.

The WHO (World Health Organization) recommends the use of mumps vaccines in all countries with well-functioning childhood vaccination programmes.