PARMA, Ohio — The Parma City School District is reporting that one of its students has contracted the mumps.
According to a statement from PCSD Superintendent Charles Smialek, a seventh grader at Hillside Middle School in Seven Hills has the mumps.
"We are closely collaborating with the Cuyahoga County Board of Health and have notified all Hillside families of this development," Smialek added.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), mumps "is a contagious disease that is caused by a virus." The CDC says the disease typically starts with a few days of fever, headache, muscle aches, tiredness, loss of appetite. Experts say "most people" will then have swelling of their salivary glands, "which is what causes puffy cheeks and a tender, swollen jaw."
The CDC recommends that children get two doses of the combination vaccine that protects against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR). The first dose from the age of 12 through 15 months and the second dose at ages 4-6.