Acute Parotitis Associated with Influenza Type a

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Abstract
During the height of the 1975–76 influenza epidemic in Massachusetts,* several patients with acute inflammatory parotitis were seen in the Emergency Department of the Cable Memorial Hospital within a few days. Subsequent analysis of these and other cases submitted for diagnostic assistance to the Virology Laboratory of the State Laboratory Institute, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, showed this parotid inflammation to be associated with influenza Type A virus.Case Reports†Case 1. A 44-year-old electrician was admitted to the Emergency Department with right-sided facial swelling and fever of one day's duration. He had had a sore throat, without fever, starting . . .

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