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The Development of Live Attenuated Mumps Virus Vaccine in Historic Perspective and Its Role in the Evolution of Combined Measles–Mumps–Rubella

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Diseases with distinctive clinical features can often be identified with occurrence in early history. Hippocrates has been credited with clinical descriptions of mumps, parotitis and orchitis in thea fifth century BC [1]. Hamilton [2] is credited with the first recognition, in 1790, of central nervous system involvement in mumps and with the first description of neuropathology in fatal cases. Johnson and Goodpasture [3, 4] provided the first definitive evidence of viral etiology in mumps through monkey and human experimentation. Cultivation of mumps virus in embryonated hens’ eggs was accomplished by Habel in 1945 [5].

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Hilleman, M.R. (2011). The Development of Live Attenuated Mumps Virus Vaccine in Historic Perspective and Its Role in the Evolution of Combined Measles–Mumps–Rubella. In: Plotkin, S. (eds) History of Vaccine Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1339-5_23

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