According to the information revealed by the Nouvel Obs, the rugby players of Biarritz and Toulouse were affected by the disease last spring and 70 students of the engineering schools of the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble were infected by the mumps virus, responsible for mumps in April. In total, the Institute for Public Health Surveillance identified, in the first half of 2013, seven outbreaks of localized epidemics occurring in 18-25 year olds: in Rhône-Alpes, Champagne-Ardenne, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Ile- de-France and Aquitaine. 13,310 reports of mumps were recorded during the first 7 months of 2013, more than triple than in 2012.
The recommendations
The Sentinels network therefore recommends that people born after 1980 check their vaccines and especially if they have received the two doses reserved for MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella). Most of the contamination has been observed in communities such as barracks, sports clubs or universities.
Mumps in adults
Mumps in adults is a fairly rare disease as most are now vaccinated or because they have been vaccinated. However, each year adults are affected by this particularly contagious viral disease which generally rages in late winter and early spring.
Paramyxovirus is transmitted orally, successively contaminating the nasopharynx, lymph nodes, blood and finally the parotid gland, causing it to become inflamed. In adults, the disease is closely watched because the risk of complications is greater than in children. The virus can attack other organs, such as the testes in men, causing mumps orchitis (20% of cases), the breasts and ovaries in women, and even the brain and meninges.
