There is an outbreak of the mumps virus across the country, with KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Gauteng accounting for the majority of the recorded cases, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Thursday.
Mumps is an acute viral infection caused by the rubulavirus. It is sometimes called “infectious parotitis”, as it causes painful swelling of the parotid and/or salivary glands.
Mumps is generally a mild childhood disease, mostly affecting children between five and nine. However, younger and older children as well as adults can become infected. People who have had mumps are usually protected for life against another mumps infection. However, second occurrences do rarely occur, said the NICD.
“More recent data presented as an epidemic curve shows unexpected, steady increases in IgM test positives from week 6 of 2023 with KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Gauteng accounting for the majority. The unexpected, sudden increase in mumps IgM and PCR test positives, in the absence of other data, constitutes an outbreak.
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