12:25pm Monday 15th March 2010
By Dan Hearn
A mumps outbreak has been affecting students in the city, it has been reported.
There were 27 reported cases in the first week of March, with students from both Oxford University and Oxford Brookes affected.
Oxford University newspaper Cherwell has quoted the Thames Valley Health Protection Unit as saying: "The outbreak is the result of poor immunity amongst the student group and the easy spread of the virus between students."
Symptoms normally develop between 15 and 24 days after being infected with the virus.
Swollen glands, headache, joint pain, nausea, dry mouth, mild abdominal pain, fatigue loss of appetite and fever are among the symptoms.
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