Two Anaheim Ducks have the mumps, and a couple Minnesota Wild may, too.
Ducks winger Corey Perry has been cleared to work out after missing four games. Defenseman Francois Beauchemin hopes for the same soon.
Ducks winger Corey Perry (AP Photo)As for Minnesota, defensemen Jonas Brodin and Marco Scandella are both out with "glandular swelling" that coach Mike Yeo thinks originated in California. CLASSIC CASE OF THE ANAHEIM MUMPS.
Mumps is a pretty simple viral infection that causes flu-like symptoms and the aforementioned swelling of the glands. It also seems like something that maybe people shouldn't get in 2014.
Nothing that a flagon of ale and a good blood-letting can't fix, though. Here is a partial list of ailments from which these poor, poor Ducks and Wild do not suffer. One of these is fictional.
— Scurvy
— Ricketts
— Croup
— Biliousness
— Distemper
— Scrivener's palsy
— Rabies/canine madness
— Bone shave
— Grocer's itch
— Milk fever
— Milk leg
— Milk sickness
— Dropsy
— Scrum crust
— Barber's wrist
— Putrid fever
— Butcher's leg
— Extravastaed blood
— Rabies (again)
— Cholera and various other "Oregon Trail"-borne diseases
— The Grip
— Bronze John
— Dyspepsia
— And everybody's favorite, consumption.
