There is a complex inter-relationship between nutrition and morbidity in human health. Many diseases reduce nutritional status, but on the other hand, having low status also known to make individuals more susceptible certain serious illness. Modern evidence these relationships, determined after introduction of antibiotics vaccines, may not be applicable historical settings before medical techno...

Background: Mumps is a self-limiting viral disease in children which usually resolve within 10 days. It characterized by fever, constitutional symptoms and swelling of the parotid gland(s) may lead to serious complications. The most common complication orchitis, followed meningitis. Less complications include pancreatitis, encephalitis, deafness, mastitis, oophoritis, facial Bell palsy. Methods...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of pervasive developmental disorders has increased in recent years. Links with the measles component of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and the cumulative exposure to thimerosal through other vaccines have been postulated. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this work was to estimate the pervasive developmental disorder prevalence in Montreal, Canada, in cohorts born from 19...

background and aims: adventitious agents, especially viral agents are among the most important concerns in viral vaccines. viral contamination of biological products may arise from the original source of the reagents such as, serum, trypsin, animal or human derived media components or cell culture and working seed or cross contamination of vaccine during production. in this study, adventitious ...

MUMPS is a software package for the multifrontal solution of large sparse linear systems on distributed memory computers. The matrices can be symmetric positive definite, general symmetric, or unsymmetric, and possibly rank deficient. MUMPS exploits parallelism coming from the sparsity in the matrix and parallelism available for dense matrices. Additionally, large computational tasks are divide...

We report a case of pancreatitis and parotitis in an adult male following immunisation with a trivalent mumps-measles-rubella vaccine. Presentation was 21 days after vaccination, with the patient making a full recovery without intervention. A literature review revealed only five other such cases, with the Urabe strain of attenuated mumps virus appearing to be disproportionately represented. The...

To the Editor: Control of com-municable diseases often relies in part on school and workplace exclusion. Exclusion policies are also likely to play a role in pandemic infl uenza control and currently are used as policy for control of several vaccine-preventable diseases, including mumps (1). Mumps virus is typically present in saliva from 2–3 days before to 4–5 days after onset of parotitis. Ho...

In 1971 Maurice Hillemanat at the Merck Institute of Therapeutic Research, a pharmaceutical company in West Point, Pennsylvania, created the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. The vaccine combined three separate vaccines for measles, mumps, and rubella, common and sometimes fatal diseases. Measles causes a red skin rash and severe fevers that can be fatal. Mumps causes fever and swellin...

The replication of mumps virus was studied in human continuous lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) with T or B characteristics and in lymphocyte subpopulations derived from peripheral blood. T-LCLs supported effective virus replication as shown by high titers of free and cell-associated virus over 1 to 4 days after infection. By immunofluorescence analysis, the majority of cells were positive for ...

In a project like MUMPS, software engineering aspects are critical to ensure the stability of the software and improve the users’ experience. In this talk, we present some of the software engineering aspects tackled since the last users meeting. We present a new functionality allowing users to dump all MUMPS internal data to disk and then restart a previous MUMPS instance from a different proce...