Can you really become sterile if youv'e had mumps?


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If you get it later in life. A friend's brother had it in adulthood - made his unit swell up for a bit and left him sterile.

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Mumps
Dr Trisha Macnair

Mumps usually affects children and teenagers. When teenagers or adults get the infection it may be more severe - older boys are particularly at risk from orchitis (inflammation of the testes), which can reduce a man's fertility.


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