Childhood immunizations in the United States
Mumps is a contagious disease caused by the virus by the same name. Since most people in the United States have been vaccinated, mumps is now a rare disease in this country. Currently there are no specific treatments for mumps.
Mumps is spread person to person by droplets of saliva or mucus from the mouth, nose or throat of an infected person. This is done through coughing, sneezing, talking, and coming into contact with contaminate items. Transmission likely occurs before the salivary glands swell an up to 5 days after the swelling begins.
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.