Mumps -- United States
The ongoing measles outbreak now has anti-vaxx competition from another vaccine-preventable disease, mumps. From 1-31 Jan 2019, mumps infections have been reported in 58 people from 18 states to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
This new data is good news when compared with 2018 when the CDC confirmed 2251 mumps cases. But, this CDC data may not include mumps cases reported by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency during 2019. So far, ICE facilities
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6350670&promed&0
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