AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Mumps - A Classic Vaccine Preventable Disease
Where the mumps virus came from is a difficult question to answer. It's possible that it spilled over from pigs to humans during the agricultural revolution, when humans first began to domesticate pigs. Or another option is that it's spilled over from humans to pigs. We don't know. But we do have a better sense for when mumps was first written about, and that is in hypocratic texts of the fifth century b c e.