Arkansas studying mumps vaccine effectiveness
By - Associated Press - Monday, November 28, 2016
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Arkansas Department of Health is studying whether the mumps vaccine is less effective against the type of mumps contracted by hundreds of people during the past three months of an outbreak first announced in August.
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?What we?ve seen between 30 and 10 years ago is very low levels of mumps, just a few hundred cases in the United States per year,? Haselow said. ?But starting 10 years ago, there?s been a resurgence, and we?re seeing higher numbers and larger outbreaks, and more difficult to control outbreaks around the world but also within the United States.?...
By - Associated Press - Monday, November 28, 2016
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Arkansas Department of Health is studying whether the mumps vaccine is less effective against the type of mumps contracted by hundreds of people during the past three months of an outbreak first announced in August.
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?What we?ve seen between 30 and 10 years ago is very low levels of mumps, just a few hundred cases in the United States per year,? Haselow said. ?But starting 10 years ago, there?s been a resurgence, and we?re seeing higher numbers and larger outbreaks, and more difficult to control outbreaks around the world but also within the United States.?...