Mumps
Mumps, also known as epidemic parotitis, is a viral disease caused by the mumps virus. Initial signs and symptoms often include fever, muscle pain, headache, and feeling tired. This is then usually followed by painful swelling of one or both parotid glands. Symptoms typically occur 16 to 18 days after exposure and resolve after 7 to 10 days. Symptoms in adults are often more severe than in children. About a third of people have mild or no symptoms. Complications may include infections of the covering of the brain (15%), pancreatitis (4%), permanent deafness, and painful testicular swelling which uncommonly results in infertility. Women may develop ovarian swelling but this does not increase the risk of infertility.
Mumps is highly contagious and spreads rapidly among people living in close quarters. The virus is transmitted by respiratory droplets or direct contact with an infected person. Only humans get and spread the disease. People are infectious to each other from a few days before the start of symptoms to four days after. After an infection a person is typically immune for life. Reinfection is possible but tends to be mild. Diagnosis is usually suspected due to parotid swelling and can be confirmed by isolating the virus on a swab of the parotid duct. Testing for IgM antibodies in the blood is simple and may be useful; however, can be falsely negative in those who have been immunized.
Mumps (disambiguation)
Mumps is a viral disease.
Mumps or MUMPS may also refer to:
Mumps (rock band)
Mumps (sometimes credited as The Mumps) were an American punk band fronted by Lance Loud.
Other members of the band included Kristian Hoffman, Rob Duprey, Jay Dee Daugherty and Aaron Kiley. Kiley and Daugherty were replaced with Kevin Kiely and Paul Rutner.
Their first 45 RPM single was "I Like To Be Clean". Their second was "Rock & Roll This & That" with a double side B of "Muscleboys" and "That Fatal Charm". The recorded version of the song "Rock & Roll This & That" interpolated a short guitar riff from the Rolling Stones' "I Can't Get No Satisfaction", but in live performances they would interpolate other riffs such as David Bowie's "Rebel Rebel".
Mumps concerts were lively and featured energetic, expressive performances from Lance Loud and other band members on songs like "We're Americans", "I Believe In Anyone But You", "Strange Seed", "Brain Massage", "Scream and Scream Again".
Mumps were a popular band at clubs such as Max's Kansas City and CBGB. They also performed at Irving Plaza and Maxwell's (Hoboken, New Jersey), and opened for the Ramones at Hurrah (nightclub) in August 1978.
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The Medley
by: Political AsylumCrisis they say
But it's not funny
When lives are squandered, we still pay the money
Welfare is cut, to foot the bill
So it ain't just the enemy, it's OAPs they kill
Do they care?
So they put you in the army, with a gun in your hand
Tell you to slaughter people, you just don't understand
So you throw away their gun, refuse to vent their hate
They call you a traitor, but that does not placate
The bell tolls, the death knell calls, for who, for me
Well I've had enough of being pushed around
Screwed into the floor
Gonna pack my bags, gonna grab my coat
Run out the door
Just cos I am a pacifist don't mean I'll take abuse
I ain't no wooden puppet to be put to your own use
I'm a a pacifist
So you can stuff your cheap heroics
Oh, you can point the finger
And tell me who I am
Yes you can point the finger
Well I could give a damn
Don't think that I;m a punchbag
For you to push around and shove
You can stuff your arrogance
Right now, I've had enough
I'm a pacifist
I'm a passive fist
Right
You can write "Punk's Not Dead" on your back
Perhaps it's it's the intelligence that you lack
Punk became a fashion like mod and ted
Reject these media-crazed movements and use your own fucking head
You don't have to wear the punk uniform
You don't have to join a fashion, you don't have to conform
Youth cults are a means by which media manipulates the youth
Punk started as a threat to the system, it exposed the truth
But now it's been corrupted and exploited by the press
What started as a good thing is now a fucking mess
Turn one tribe against another, your label could be your fate
We're all in the palm of the system's hand
as long as we align ourselves with some fucking stupid movement that,
in the end, will sell out to the businessmen with their Rolls Royces, cigars and cash
Ready to latch on to the latest craze in a cheque-book waving dash
It's these bastards that fucked up punk from the start
When the next fashion comes along you can bet they'll play their part
In using it to fill their pockets, filling it up with shit
Ready to develop another stereotype, another identikit
Wear the clothes the rip-off merchants sell to you
All movements are the same, the leaders use them to divide and rule
So when the next trend comes along will you join the ranks