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Sacred Heart makes public month-old mumps outbreak
By Linda Conner Lambeck Updated 3:55 pm, Thursday, April 28, 2016
Fairfield — A month after mumps started at Sacred Heart University and a week before students head home for the summer, officials announced the outbreak publicly on Thursday.
The announcement actually came from the state Department of Health after another student on another unnamed college campus in the state, also came down with a case of the communicable viral illness. That student had spent time with an ill student from Sacred Heart.
“A few days after spring break we had two cases, then another, then two more came up positive,” Larry Wielk, Sacred Heart’s dean of students said. In all there have been 17 suspected and eight confirmed. The latest one last week.
There is no real treatment for the illness. Instead those infected are kept in isolation for five days. So far, all the students diagnosed with the mumps have fully recovered, officials said...
Sacred Heart makes public month-old mumps outbreak
By Linda Conner Lambeck Updated 3:55 pm, Thursday, April 28, 2016
Fairfield — A month after mumps started at Sacred Heart University and a week before students head home for the summer, officials announced the outbreak publicly on Thursday.
The announcement actually came from the state Department of Health after another student on another unnamed college campus in the state, also came down with a case of the communicable viral illness. That student had spent time with an ill student from Sacred Heart.
“A few days after spring break we had two cases, then another, then two more came up positive,” Larry Wielk, Sacred Heart’s dean of students said. In all there have been 17 suspected and eight confirmed. The latest one last week.
There is no real treatment for the illness. Instead those infected are kept in isolation for five days. So far, all the students diagnosed with the mumps have fully recovered, officials said...