Mumps

Mumps

A community portal about Mumps with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: 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... [more]

A community portal about Mumps with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: 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, and is still a significant threat to health in the third world.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Global deaths from measles fell by 78 percent between 2000 and 2008 thanks largely to mass childhood vaccination campaigns, but experts say death rates may rise again if complacency allows immunization efforts to lag. About 164,000 died from measles in 2008 down from 733,000 in 2000, according to the U.S.-based Measles Initiative, which groups several organizations including the United Nations children's fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization. Vaccinating nearly 700 million children against measles with large-scale immunization programs and increased routine vaccination coverage, has prevented an estimated 4.3 million measles deaths in less than a decade, the group said. But ... Read Full Story
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U.S. health officials say the largest U.S. outbreak of mumps in three years is occurring in New York and New Jersey. About 180 cases were identified in those two states from the time an investigation began in August through the end of October. Another 15 cases tied to the same outbreak have been reported in Canada. Three people have been hospitalized but no deaths were reported. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the outbreak was first reported at a boys camp in Sullivan County, N.Y. It may have been triggered by an 11-year-old boy from the United Kingdom, where an ongoing ... Read Full Story
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U.S. health officials say the largest U.S. outbreak of mumps in three years is occurring in New York and New Jersey. About 180 cases were identified in those two states from the time an investigation began in August through the end of October. Another 15 cases tied to the same outbreak have been reported in Canada. Three people have been hospitalized but no deaths were reported. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the outbreak was first reported at a boys camp in Sullivan County, N.Y. It may have been triggered by an 11-year-old boy from the United Kingdom, where an ongoing ... Read Full Story
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When was the last time you ever heard of someone getting the mumps ? While most of us can say it’s been a while (if not, never), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reporting the largest outbreak of mumps in three years . Most of these outbreaks took place in New York and New Jersey. Friendly reminder – the best way to protect kids from getting the mumps is by getting them vaccinated. The combination measles-mumps-rubella immunization helps protect kids against these illnesses, which are less common thanks to the large number of kids and people who’ve been vaccinated over the ... Read Full Story
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There are two potential benefits to vaccine. One is preventive. You get the vaccine, you don’t worry about exposure to the disease. You don’t have to lie awake at night, fearing your children have been exposed to smallpox. As far as traditional and proven, vaccines are one of the oldest tools of modern medicine. In 1796 Dr. Edward Jenner published his research on smallpox prevention. Noting the common observation that milkmaids did not generally get smallpox, Jenner theorized that the pus in the blisters which milkmaids received from cowpox (a disease similar to smallpox, but much less virulent) protected the milkmaids from smallpox. He ... Read Full Story
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Hi to cut a long story short i decided not to allow my 1 yr old to get the MMR. Yes yes i know the study has been discredited and all that but in my opinion there are enough parents out there complaining about its side effects for me to decide against it. So i decided to give to my son the individual ones instead (go private) only to find out that the manufacturer of the single mumps vaccine does not produce it anymore, effectively forcing...  
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Arguably, the genesis of the most recent iteration of the anti-vaccine movement dates back to 1998, when a remarkably incompetent researcher named Andrew Wakefield published a trial lawyer-funded “study” in the Lancet that purported to find a link between “autistic enterocolitis” and measles vaccination with the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) trivalent vaccine. In the wake of that publication was born a scare over the MMR that persists to this...  
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Arguably, the genesis of the most recent iteration of the anti-vaccine movement dates back to 1998, when a remarkably incompetent researcher named Andrew Wakefield published a trial lawyer-funded "study" in the Lancet that purported to find a link between "autistic enterocolitis" and measles vaccination with the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) trivalent vaccine. In the wake of that publication was born a scare over the MMR that persists to this...  
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The CDC is reporting thet largest U.S. mumps outbreak since 2006 is occurring in New Jersey, New York and Canada right now. There have been at least 179 cases. The index case is an 11-year-old boy who had returned June 17th from the United Kingdom where a mumps outbreak with over 4000 cases in ongoing. However, beginning in July 2009, the largest U.S. mumps outbreak since 2006 has occurred, with 179 confirmed or probable cases reported in...  
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Genetic analyses of viral samples from 74 laboratory confirmed measles cases occurring in Taiwan during 1992-2008 identified six viral genotypes D3, D5, D9, G2, H1 and H2. The most frequently detected genotype, H1, was associated with outbreaks in 1994 and 2002, and was the likely indigenous genotype in 1992. In response to the outbreaks, two catch-up campaigns were launched and a routine second dose of measles, mumps, rubella vaccine at entry...  
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