Mumps
Mumps is considered most contagious in the five days after the onset of symptoms, and isolation is recommended during this period. In someone who has been admitted to the hospital, standard and droplet precautions are needed. People who work in healthcare cannot work for five days.
Mites of domestic animals
Compared to ticks and insects of domestic animals the parasitic mites are of limited importance as transmitters (vectors) of pathogenic organisms to domestic animals. Some mites are the intermediate host of parasitic worms, but not defined as vectors because they do not parasitize a host. For example, free living mites of the family Oribatidae ingest the eggs of "Moniezia expansa" tapeworm of sheep; the sheep then ingest the mites whilst grazing. "Dermanyssus gallinae" has been shown to transmit the virus causing St Louis encephalitis virus between chickens. (the main transmitters of this virus to humans are "Culex" mosquitoes). Various species of trombiculid mite transmit the bacterium "Orientia tsutsugamushi", the causative agent of scrub-typhus, a notorious disease of humans in South East Asia. "Leptotrombidium deliniense" is the most important of several species of mite transmitting this bacterium.