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3 unusual facts about Mumps


E. J. Viso

Shortly after the Watkins Glen race (in which he finished 10th but forced Vitor Meira off the track, causing Meira to run back onto the track to confront Viso on the next lap) he was diagnosed with the Mumps and was forced to withdraw from the next race.

Kazna Za Uši

With the bassist Milan Popović, the band recorded the album Zauške (Mumps), produced by Jovanović and Goran Živković.

Mumps

The WHO, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the British Medical Association and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain currently recommend routine vaccination of children against mumps.


Congo Norvell

Various incarnations of the band have included Jim Sclavunos, Paul Wallfisch, Brian Emrich, Kristian Hoffman (Mumps, Swinging Madisons), Mary Mullen, Joe Berardi, Keith Mitchell and Jack Martin.

Joan Eardley

In the early 1950s while convalescing from mumps Eardley was taken by a friend to visit Catterline, a small fishing village near Stonehaven, then in Kincardineshire (now Aberdeenshire).

Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips supported Dr Andrew Wakefield, the medical researcher who questioned the safety of the MMR vaccine given to children to immunise them against Measles, Mumps, and Rubella.

Melvin Conway

In the 1970s and 1980s, he was involved with the MUMPS medical computer language and system language standard specification for the National Bureau of Standards.

MUMPS users

Large companies currently using MUMPS include AmeriPath (now part of Quest Diagnostics), Care Centric, Team Health, Epic, EMIS, Partners HealthCare, Meditech, GE Healthcare (formerly IDX Systems and Centricity), and Sunquest Information Systems (formerly Misys Healthcare).

Oldham Mumps

Oldham Mumps Metrolink station, a stop - formerly a railway station - serving the Mumps area of Oldham

Past medical history

Immunizations: take a careful record of all immunizations, including tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, polio, Hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella, Haemophilus influenzae type B, influenza.

SARS conspiracy theory

The SARS conspiracy theory began to emerge during the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in China in the spring of 2003, when Sergei Kolesnikov, a Russian scientist and a member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, first publicized his claim that the SARS coronavirus is a synthesis of measles and mumps.

Thirty-Day Princess

On her way to New York to find financial backing for her impoverished country, the Ruritanian Kingdom of Taronia, Princess "Zizzi" Catterina (Sylvia Sidney) falls ill with the mumps and has to be quarantined for a month.

VA Kernel

The VA Kernel is a set of programs, developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs of the United States Government, which provide an operating system and MUMPS implementation independent abstraction to the VistA Hospital Information System.

WorldVistA

For Linux-based servers, WorldVistA server uses the (free open source) Fidelity GT.M MUMPS database, available as an integrated package along with WorldVistA Server.


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