Mumps Outbreak—New York, New Jersey, Quebec, 2009

Mumps is a vaccine-preventable viral infection characterized by fever and inflammation of the salivary glands and whose complications include orchitis, deafness, and meningo-encephalitis. In August 2009, CDC was notified of the onset of an outbreak of mumps in a summer camp in Sullivan County, New Y...

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Published in:JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2010-02, Vol.303 (7), p.607-614
Main Authors: High, P, Handschur, EF, Eze, OS, Montana, B, Robertson, C, Tan, C, Rosen, JB, Cummings, KP, Doll, MK, Zucker, JR, Zimmerman, CM, Dolinsky, T, Goodell, S, Schulte, C, Blog, D, Leblanc, MA, Li, YA, Barskey, A, Wallace, G, Gallagher, K, Armstrong, G, Lowe, L, McNall, R, Rota, J, Rota, P, Hickman, C, Bellini, WJ, Apostolou, A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Camps
Epidemics
History of medicine
Mumps
Public health
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Summary:Mumps is a vaccine-preventable viral infection characterized by fever and inflammation of the salivary glands and whose complications include orchitis, deafness, and meningo-encephalitis. In August 2009, CDC was notified of the onset of an outbreak of mumps in a summer camp in Sullivan County, New York. The outbreak has spread and gradually increased in size and is now the largest US mumps outbreak since 2006, when the US experienced a resurgence of mumps with 6,584 reported cases. Here, High et al investigate the mumps outbreak in 2009 that happened in New York, New Jersey, and Quebec, Canada. A CDC editorial note is included.
ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598