UK: 2010 Mumps outbreaks

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Re: UK: 2010 Mumps outbreaks

Source: http://www.elystandard.co.uk/news/dr...mumps_1_616936


Dramatic Rise In Cases Of Mumps

Monday, 30 August, 2010
10:34 AM

THERE was a dramatic increase in the number of young people in Cambridgeshire diagnosed with mumps last year, figures released by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) have revealed.

THERE was a dramatic increase in the number of young people in Cambridgeshire diagnosed with mumps last year, figures released by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) have revealed.

During 2009 there were 101 confirmed cases of the viral infection, characterised by painful swelling around the neck, while there were only 12 cases recorded in the county during 2008.

The rise is being put down to a low uptake of the combined MMR (measals, mumps and rubella) vaccine among those born before 1990, when large scale vaccination began in the UK.

Across the East of England there were 565 cases of mumps during 2009 compared with only 136 the previous year.

Figures released for 2010 to June show that there have been 34 cases in Cambridgeshire, with the number expected to rise as students head back to schools, colleges and universities in the county...

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Source: http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/87556...ble_in_a_year/

Brighton and Hove mumps cases double in a year
2:30pm Tuesday 28th December 2010


* By Siobhan Ryan, Health Reporter ?


Health bosses are urging people to make sure they get vaccinated after it emerged the number of people suffering mumps in Brighton and Hove has more than doubled in a year.

There were 58 confirmed cases of the virus in the city in 2010 compared to 27 in 2009.

In East Sussex there have been more than 45 cases compared to 44 the year before.

West Sussex showed a sharp drop in cases from 70 to 29 but this was mainly down to an outbreak of mumps at the University of Chichester in 2009 which skewed the figures...