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Mumps is a disease that affects the adenoids. About two weeks after infection an inflammation appears on the parotid gland along with swelling, pain and fever. During childhood the disease is usually harmless and other organs are rarely affected.
However, in adults, the disease can spread to other organs. A frequent and uncomfortable complication is testicular inflammation (mumps orchitis). It occurs in a quarter of male patients and can have severe consequences in pubescent boys and adult men.
The orchitis is a febrile testicular inflammation. It appears four to five days after the swelling of the parotid gland and one in forty patients subsequently become infertile.
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Causes of infertility 
