New Delhi: There has been a rising number of cases of hearing loss among children diagnosed with mumps in Mumbai, sparking a wave of worry among doctors and authorities. Doctors say most children have ...
In Jonathan Spector's dark comedy Eureka Day, a mumps outbreak rocks a private California elementary school where the powers that be scrimmage over appropriate vaccine policies.
Chennai: Mumps should be made notifiable disease, directorate of public health has recommended, adding that vaccination against the viral infection which primarily affects the salivary glands ...
mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR), diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis vaccine (DTaP), poliovirus vaccine (polio), and varicella vaccine (VAR), as well as exemptions from vaccination.
This data revealed Wisconsin children are behind on important childhood vaccines, such as polio, pertussis, diphtheria and tetanus (DTaP) and measles, mumps and rubella (MMR). For example ...
That means that about 280,000 (7.3 percent) kindergartners in the US are at risk of measles, mumps, and rubella infections. Likewise, DTaP coverage fell to 92.3 percent, down from 92.7 percent.
A third dose of the mumps vaccine, if given early during an outbreak, might reduce transmission and prevent the disease in some people who are most at risk, according to mathematical models 1.