This article will help you quickly identify common childhood diseases. How to recognise and treat mumps, measles, and hand foot and mouth. People of any age can catch mumps, it is an unpleasant disease, but can lead to serious complications, including viral meningitis, pancreatitis and swelling of the testes or ovaries in adults. There has been a marked drop in uptake of the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine which has led to a rise in measles cases. The MMR jab provides 99% protection against measles and so is vital to control this potentially serious disease. But Public Health England and PHW
Mumps, measles and hand, foot and mouth disease as seen on The Hippocratic Post.