The players displaying symptoms of the virus were tested for the virus and will be quarantined for a period of at least five-days until the tests return.
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“We’re taking this very seriously given how easily mumps can spread,” said Canuck’s General Manager Jim Benning in a statement, according to the report.
The mumps are best known for painful, swollen salivary glands that cause puffy cheeks and swollen jaw. It is a highly communicable disease transmitted by person-to-person contact and is typically accompanied by initial symptoms such as fever, headache, muscle aches, tiredness and loss of appetite.
Two doses of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine are 88 percent effective at preventing the mumps, according to the CDC.
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