Arkansas has had a rough 2019 season, to put it mildly. Heading into the final game of the season, the Razorbacks are dealing with a health issue out of the ordinary: a mumps outbreak.

According to Tom Murphy of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, it started with nine confirmed cases on UA campus. On Monday, a statement was released saying two student-athletes had been diagnosed with mumps:

“Two student-athletes have been diagnosed with the mumps and they have been at the Jones Center recently. A few staff members in athletic training have also been quarantined. To be safe, we strongly recommend that everyone get the vaccine.”

Interim head coach Barry Lunney Jr. also released a statement on the matter, per Murphy:

“I’m going to coach football, that’s how I’m going to handle it,” Lunney said. “I’m going to lead our team and get us ready to play on Friday.

“That’s not a situation where there’s any kind of panic or anything like that, it’s just something that we’re having to deal with. Our care and the health of our players and our staff is always at a premium and it will continue to be that way, but I’m just going to continue to coach football and get our guys ready to play football on Friday.”

Murphy’s article notes that CB Montaric Brown and LB Deon Edwards did not travel last week to LSU due to “unspecified illness.” He reports that the school would not confirm if they had mumps.

Arkansas is set to take on Missouri on Friday in Little Rock at 1:30 p.m. CT.