What is Mumps
Mumps or epidemic parotitis is a viral disease of humans. Prior to the development of vaccination and the introduction of a vaccine, it was a common childhood disease worldwide, an...
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A new report by the Center for Disease Control is detailed in a MSNBC news story about a resurgence of mumps--especially in college age students:
"Mumps vaccine can lose punch by college years CDC: Waning immunity blamed for outbreak of 6,600 cases Most of the college students who got the mumps in a big outbreak in 2006 had received the recommended two vaccine shots, according to a study that raises questions about whether a new vaccine or another booster shot is needed. The outbreak was the biggest in the U.S. since shortly before states began requiring a second shot for youngsters in 1990. Nearly 6,600 people became sick with the mumps, mostly in eight Midwest states, and the hardest-hit group was college students ages 18 to 24. Of those in that group who knew whether they had been vaccinated, 84 percent had had two mumps shots, according to the study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health departments . . ." Read the rest: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24033294 Posted on 04/10/08, 12:04 pm |
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