CDC Reports Largest Mumps Outbreak Since 2006
11.16.09 |
The largest mumps outbreak since 2006 is ravaging parts of New York and New Jersey. The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention reports 179 confirmed or probable cases reported in the two states, with an additional 15 cases reported in Canada. In 2006, the U.S. experienced a multi-state outbreak involving more than 65-hundred reported cases of mumps.
The current outbreak has hit four locations in New York, and one each in New Jersey and Quebec, Canada. The New York State Department of Health was notified of mumps cases in a summer camp in Sullivan County, New York, serving approximately 400 boys. From there, the outbreak spread to Brooklyn, Rockland County and Orange County, all in New York as well as Ocean County, New Jersey.
The CDC defines Mumps as a vaccine-preventable viral infection characterized by fever and inflammation of the salivary glands and whose complications include orchitis, deafness, and meningo-encephalitis.
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