Tundras are among Earth's coldest, harshest biomes. Tundra ecosystems are treeless regions found in the Arctic and on the tops of mountains, where the climate is cold and windy and rainfall is scant. Tundra lands are snow-covered for much of the year, until summer brings a burst of wildflowers.
A. Mumps starts just like most other viral diseases, with fever, tiredness, muscle aches, and/or loss of appetite. The classic sign of mumps -- swollen salivary glands that make a person look like a chipmunk -- don't appear right away.About half of people infected with the mumps virus don't get noticeable symptoms. When mumps symptoms do appear, they usually come 16 to 18 days after infection.. Mumps starts just like most other viral diseases, with fever, tiredness, muscle aches, and/or loss of appetite. The classic sign of mumps -- swollen salivary glands that make a person look like a chipmunk -- don't appear right away.
Mumps is a virus that classically causes painful swelling of the parotid glands (saliva glands). Before the vaccine became available, it was an extremely common childhood infection.When adults or adolescents get mumps the infection is more serious, often with orchitis (inflammation of the testicles).umps has been a common disease for centuries. Hippocrates wrote about it almost 2500 years ago. Itâs not all that serious an illness. It doesnât even affect male fertility the way that most people think.