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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Boston (DbTechNo) - A mumps outbreak has been reported throughout the Jewish community in New York. The mumps virus is highly contagious, and results in swelling in the salivary glands in the neck. Other symptoms of mumps include fever, fatigue, encephalitis and spontaneous abortion. The virus is preventable with the aid of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) [...]  
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Yeshiva World NewsMultistate mumps outbreak alert: New York, New Jersey and ConnecticutExaminer.comFrom what started a few months ago in Brooklyn has continued on through the holiday season where New York City is currently dealing with approximately 600 ...Mumps Outbreak in New Jersey and New YorkeMaxHealthMumps outbreak in New York hits vaccinated childrenExaminer.comall 21 news articles »  
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The city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has issued an alert (pdf) to healthcare providers in response to a record mumps outbreak in New York and New Jersey. The CDC traced the path of i...  
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"Brooklyn, New York is suffering a large outbreak of mumps right now. There have been 600 cases either confirmed or suspected in the past few months. Compare that to the fewer than 300 cases total on average in the entire United States over the course of a whole year and you’ll see that this is clearly a major outbreak."  
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New York – The largest U.S. outbreak of the mumps in several years is taking its toll on New York. At least 152 people in the Rockland County towns of Monsey and New Square have been diagnosed with the highly infectious disease since the summer. Scores more people have fallen ill in the village of Kiryas Joel [...]  
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The largest U.S. outbreak of the mumps in several years is taking its toll on New York. At least 152 people in the Rockland County towns of Monsey and New Square have been diagnosed with the highly infectious disease since the summer. Scores more people have fallen ill in the village of Kiryas Joel in Orange County and hundreds are sick in Brooklyn.  
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The largest U.S. outbreak of the mumps in several years is taking its toll on New York.At least 152 people in the Rockland County towns of Monsey and New Square have been diagnosed with the highly infectious disease since the summer.Scores more people have fallen ill in the village of Kiryas Joel in Orange County and hundreds are sick in Brooklyn.Investigators have traced the U.S. outbreak to a  
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MONSEY — The number of people in Rockland County who have come down with mumps has jumped to 152 as part of what state and federal health officials are calling the largest outbreak of the disease nationwide in years.  
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Residents in the North East have been advised to consult their GPs about having the MMR vaccine after a rise in the number of cases of mumps reported in the past year. Figures released by the have revealed that more than 100 cases of mumps were reported  
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UPTAKE of the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine in Wales has reached its highest level in 12 years in the aftermath of an outbreak that has affected almost 400 children.  
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There is a lot of talk of a mumps outbreak in New York among some Hassidic communities. Some infected were among those already vaccinated, as there is a certain percentage of people who will get it anyway despite being vaccinated, but it originated from groups of people who refused to vaccinate their children.I can understand people refusing vaccinations because they say they don't trust the reports, or they don't trust the doctors. I can...  
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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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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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