Posted on 10/02/2026 10:23:01 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
As San Diego State prepares to open Pac-12 play against Texas State on Saturday, it's dealing with a mumps outbreak among more than a dozen players.
On Sept. 18, the university confirmed three cases of mumps on one of its athletic teams, which the San Diego Union-Tribune identified as the football team. A more recent update from the university has increased that number to 14 confirmed cases and one probable case as the highly contagious virus spreads within the locker room.
As the school monitors the outbreak, it will work with the San Diego Public Health Services on daily screenings, contact tracing, testing and administering doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine booster.
"Because mumps symptoms can develop 12 to 25 days after exposure, these new cases reflect spread within the team and potential exposure to additional close contacts," SDSU said in a statement. "The university continues to take a number of daily actions."
The Aztecs' Wednesday night availability report includes 32 players, but coach Sean Lewis declined to dive into specifics about the mumps outbreak at his weekly press conference.
"There's a lot of different things going on that are football-related and non-football-related," Lewis said. "Due to FERPA and HIPAA, I'm not gonna comment any further on that."
This is the latest setback for the Aztecs in 2026, with the team coming off a blowout loss on the road against Toledo last week. SDSU has now lost three straight games, and it enters conference play with a 1-3 record.
"We had a good conversation this morning about how we have eight weeks left in the regular season," Lewis said about his message to the team. "We knew going into it that we were only guaranteed 12. You want to maximize opportunity with the time that you do have to create more opportunity and more time as you move forward."
SDSU and Texas State are scheduled to kick off at 10:30 p.m. ET on Saturday night.
Hmmmmm, what is it about San Diego geographically they would be susceptible to diseases like the Mumps?
Wear a mask.
Unless Coach Lewis is a health professional, HIPAA does not apply.
Must have been quite a party.
Tijuana? The Tijuana River?
Maybe ODing on drugs has a new name.
Uh-oh, my wife’s alma mater played them 2 weeks ago
“So these are already vaxed individuals, then?”
No, but thanks for playing.
Omygosh! This is catastrophic! SDSU has lost 3 straight games???
It's "99% effective" alright, just not at preventing mumps, measles and chickenpox.
I remember as a kid mumps was treated like chicken pox. If a kid in the neighborhood got it all the kids would go hang out with them, so you’d catch it as a kid and never have to worry about it again. Catching mumps as an adult is worse.
What? Texas State is in the Pac-12? Next you’re going to tell me Stanford is in the ACC.
There was a mumps outbreak in my area in 1972. I was no longer a kid and definitely didn't want to come down with it as an adult, so I got vaccinated. However, I don't know if the serum I was injected with still works.
Apparently not.
MMR & MMRV vaccines usually protect people for life against measles and rubella; but immunity against mumps may decrease over time.
-CDC
how is this possible? MMR is a required vaccine to attend school for everyone.
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