What is the public health definition of mumps?
Confirmed (reportable to OHS) Isolation of mumps virus from any clinical specimen, or Acute onset of tender, self-limited swelling of any salivary gland, lasting 2 or more days, and without other apparent cause plus one of the folowing: • Detection of mumps virus nucleic acid from a clinical specimen, or • Acute- and convalescent-phase mumps IgG assays by any standard serologic assay showing at least a 4-fold titer increase and not explained by vaccination or receipt of antibody-containing blood products, or • Positive serologic test for mumps immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibody not explained by vaccination or receipt of antibody-containing blood products. Presumptive (reportable to OHS) Any person epidemiologically linked to a confirmed case, with acute onset of tender, self-limited swelling of a salivary gland lasting >2 days, and lacking any other apparent cause. The salivary gland swelling can be unilateral or bilateral, and it doesn’t have to be the parotid. Suspect (not reportable to
