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    What was it like when mumps was rampant? Ask Greg

    What was it like when mumps was rampant? Ask Greg.
    by Helen Branswell Mar 20, 2019 3 minutes
    A Jan. 16, 1957, file photo shows 7-year-old Greg Cox, who had contracted mumps, looking at his brother, Doug, at their Altamont, Ill., home.

    Poor Greg.

    It was 1957 and Greg Cox, 7 years old, was at home in Altamont, Ill., a compress wrapped from chin to hairline. He was gazing wistfully out the window of the family’s kitchen door at his younger brother, Doug, bundled up outdoors and ready to play.

    A sign was tacked to the door. “Greg can’t play,” it said. “MUMPS.”

    This was a decade before the start of the U.S. mumps vaccination program, and about 15 years before the

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