Mumps Expanding Across Region;One Case at Nova
From Q13:
New numbers show the mumps outbreak in King County has now spread to 108 cases, including one new case in a Seattle public school.Also, a story from KUOW.
The Public Health Department of Seattle & King County has confirmed a student who attends Nova High School has been diagnosed with mumps.
Health officials say 35 mumps cases are confirmed in King County and 73 cases are probable.
How is mumps spread?
A person with mumps can spread the virus by coughing, sneezing, or talking. It can also be spread by sharing cups or eating utensils, and by touching objects or surfaces with unwashed hands that are then touched by others.
Who is at risk of getting mumps?
- Infants who are too young to receive mumps vaccine
- Children over one year of age who have not received at least one dose of MMR
- Adults born after 1957 who have not been vaccinated or have not previously had mumps disease
Comments
--VaccinesWork
-Pollyanna
Had the Mumps as a kid. It wasn't a big deal and now I am immune.
HP
Mumps is now resistant to the vaccine. Don't waste your money getting vaccinated for Mumps.
>>> wins
I hope the district bans unimmunized students from schools where a verified case occurs to prevent further spread of the disease.
Mumps is best known for the puffy cheeks and swollen jaw that it causes. This is a result of swollen salivary glands. The most common symptoms include:
•Fever
•Headache
•Muscle aches
•Tiredness
•Loss of appetite
•Swollen and tender salivary glands under the ears on one or both sides (parotitis)
Symptoms typically appear 16-18 days after infection, but this period can range from 12-25 days after infection.
Some people who get mumps have very mild or no symptoms, and often they do not know they have the disease.
Most people with mumps recover completely in a few weeks.
Mumps can occasionally cause complications, especially in adults. Complications include:
•inflammation of the testicles (orchitis) in males who have reached puberty; rarely does this lead to fertility problems
•inflammation of the brain (encephalitis)
•inflammation of the tissue covering the brain and spinal cord (meningitis)
•inflammation of the ovaries (oophoritis) and/or breast tissue (mastitis)
•deafness
About the vaccine (from the CDC):
MMR vaccine is very safe and effective. The mumps component of the MMR vaccine is about 88% (range: 66-95%) effective when a person gets two doses; one dose is about 78% (range: 49%−92%) effective.
- Epidemiologist
-Epidemiologist
Molly
The following is from the Center for Disease Control:
Children may also get MMRV vaccine, which protects against measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (chickenpox). This vaccine is only licensed for use in children who are 12 months through 12 years of age.
Before the U.S. mumps vaccination program started in 1967, mumps was a universal disease of childhood. Since the pre-vaccine era, there has been a more than 99% decrease in mumps cases in the United States. Mumps outbreaks can still occur in highly vaccinated U.S. communities,particularly in close-contact settings such as schools, colleges, and camps. However, high vaccination coverage helps to limit the size, duration, and spread of mumps outbreaks.
-- Dan Dempsey
- Epidemiologist
This should read, 99,999 people out of 100,000 recover completely in a few weeks.
There are much more serious diseases than Mumps to be concerned about. I agree that the Mumps story is FAKE NEWS, because it is only partially true and loaded with one in a million scare tactics which is typical of struggling news rooms these days. I think these types of reports are considered "click bait" used to generate ad revenues.
One fact people should understand is vaccinations do not prevent you from becoming a host, they just prevent many people from being over taken by the disease. Like with the cold virus, some people catch it and others don't even though all where exposed.
ABC
From https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/mumps.html
Mumps complications:
Orchitis12%-66% in postpubertal males (prevaccine) and 3%-10% (postvaccine)
Pancreatitis: 3.5% (prevaccine)
Unilateral Deafness: 1/20,000 (prevaccine)
Death: 2/10,000 from 1966-1971 and no deaths in recent U.S. outbreaks
- Epidemiologist
EOS
If anyone is owned by Big Pharma in the U.S., it's the FDA. Although they're at least as sold out to the food corporations and farmers. The CDC is on the up and up.
I'm not going to call names, I'm not going to call names.
--Anti Stupid
a reader
Are you speaking about yourself?
There's scientific evidence that the current immunization shot for mumps now is highly ineffective and the measles vaccine is not far behind. Getting the MMR shot after exposure to the mumps is useless and stupid in preventing the mumps. It seems to me if the school district requires the shot then the district should pay for the shot. The chicken pox is the only vaccine I would recommend in the MMR, not sure if you can get them individually anymore. Pox can be really painful and nasty.
I remember a few decades ago receiving a free set of MMR shots in school. The funny thing was, I had already had all three diseases a couple years earlier, but so much for checking for anti-bodies and all that scientific stuff, just keep shooting up the kids.
Two of my friends still contracted the measles after receiving the MMR shot and a few other kids got really sick the same week as receiving the MMR shot.
There were also a handful of students who were injured by the Pneumatic powered vaccine guns, these injuries were small to large cuts in their upper arms from flinching just as the nurse pulled the trigger.
Anyway the bottom line is this, with or without a MMR vaccine there's no change in the odds you will contract the mumps and if you come in contact with disease in a school you can and will spread to others outside of the school, so if you know of someone who has the mumps, avoiding them is the only real way to prevent you from contracting the disease and spreading it to others who possibly will become sick, MMR or no MMR shots.
Of coarse all of these words are my opinion and should not be used as a recommendation. See your own AMA certified representative before making a decision.
Peace out
"Anyway the bottom line is this, with or without a MMR vaccine there's no change in the odds you will contract the mumps"
No change?!
The CDC says this:
"Mumps can be prevented with MMR vaccine."
As far as being "bought", ya, it's the FDA. All of a sudden cholesterol in eggs is OK.
Tell that to this guy,
http://www.courier-journal.com/story/life/wellness/health/2016/11/19/reluctant-vegan-diabetic-changes-life/91052718/
from near death to pretty decent health by eliminating cholesterol and other fats.
Vashon
- Epidemiologist