Mumps

I spent Thanksgiving day at a rural school investigating an outbreak of mumps. The school has set up a classroom in a house near the school to teach the students who are excluded from school with the mumps. In the first picture, 7 fifth grade children with mumps are seated around a table doing math. The second picture is of their classroom at school. You can see many empty desks. The boy in the front on the right has recovered from the mumps and returned to school. Interestingly, the empty desks are all clustered around him!