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Although rare, mumps can cause other serious types of problems.
- Teenage boys and adult men can get orchitis, which is an inflammation of the testes (the male sex organs).
- Mumps can affect the pancreas or in girls, the breasts or ovaries (female sex organs).
- Deafness, usually permanent.
- It can also cause encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) and meningitis (inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord).
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