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  • #16
    Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/health-wel...ectid=11927907


    Second case of mumps in Hawke's Bay
    30 Sep, 2017 9:37am

    Parents are being urged to check their children's immunisation status during the school holidays with a second case of mumps notified in Hawke's Bay yesterday.

    Earlier this month, a pupil from Waipukurau Primary School was confirmed as having the infection, and this week another case of a Hastings Girls' High School student was notified.

    An outbreak of mumps had hit the Auckland region this year with 457 cases reported as of this week, and although there were only two reported in Hawke's Bay the second case confirmed the virus was now circulating in the region, said Hawke's Bay DHB medical officer of Health Dr Rachel Eyre...

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    • #17
      Source: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-...ntinues-worsen


      Auckland's 'severe' mumps outbreak continues to worsen
      3:04pm
      Source:
      NZN

      A severe mumps outbreak continues to worsen as almost twice as many Aucklanders have caught the illness in the last 10 months as in the two decades prior.

      The Auckland Regional Public Health Service says 527 people have now had confirmed or likely cases of mumps in the 10 months to October 5.

      By comparison, just 286 people caught the illness - which is spread through the air by breathing, coughing and sneezing, in the 20 years prior from 1997 to January 1, 2017.

      "What we have in Auckland right now with mumps is a severe outbreak situation," Medical officer of health Josephine Herman says.
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      She said the outbreak was hitting Pacific and Maori communities and those aged between 10-and-24 years the hardest...

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      • #18
        Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11933582


        Mumps outbreak could last another year
        16 Oct, 2017 3:54pm
        By: Amy Wiggins

        The mumps outbreak in Auckland has now seen 600 people affected and could continue for up to a year, says a public health expert.

        In the past 18 days another 143 cases have been reported.

        In early September about 300 cases had been recorded by the Auckland Regional Public Health Service during the year and by September 28 that had jumped to 457. On October 9, it hit 554 and as of today there had been 600 cases reported.

        Last year only 13 cases were reported throughout the city...

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        • #19
          Round three - mumps hits the All Blacks

          22 Nov, 2017 4:02am

          By: Liam Napier

          Mumps has again struck the All Blacks.

          Bad things come in threes, and that is the case in the All Blacks camp after Hurricanes openside Ardie Savea became the third player to go down with the contagious viral illness.
          ...
          It is believed Savea caught the illness from team-mate Rieko Ioane. As the rest of the squad flew out to London, rookie centre Jack Goodhue also missed that opening match against the Barbarians at Twickenham while remaining at home to recover from the mumps.
          ...
          "Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear."
          -Nelson Mandela

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          • #20
            Source: https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/loc...nation-warning


            Increase in mumps cases in Dargaville prompts Northland vaccination warning
            HANNAH MARTIN
            Last updated 18:43, November 27 2017


            Northland health professionals are warning a mumps outbreak could be imminent after cases climbed to four times last year's numbers.

            A spokesperson for Northland District Health Board said there were eight confirmed cases in school-aged children in Dargaville, making for a total of 24 in the region this year.

            In 2016 there were six reported cases of mumps, up from three in 2015...

            ...The outbreak is spreading: More than 740 cases of mumps have been reported in Auckland since January, the highest number for 23 years.

            Around seven per cent of the cases have so far been serious enough to need hospitalisation.

            The last similar outbreak of mumps was in 1994 when there were between 200 and 300 cases reported. Since then only handfuls of cases were reported each year, many from overseas.

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            • #21
              Source: https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/natio...k-reaches-1000


              15 Dec 2017
              Auckland mumps outbreak reaches 1000
              5:11 pm on 15 December 2017

              The number of people with the mumps in Auckland has hit 1000, with experts saying it now can't be contained without vaccinations.

              The latest Auckland Regional Public Health figures show 1003 people have contracted the disease since it broke out earlier this year

              And the more people that have the disease, the faster it travelled through the community.

              A senior lecturer in vaccinology at Auckland University, Helen Petousis-Harris, said it had reached a threshold where it would keep spreading until it ran out of people who could contract it...

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              • #22
                Source: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-...health-experts


                Auckland mumps outbreak turns to epidemic, say health experts
                1:04pm
                Source: NZN
                Auckland's mumps outbreak has become an epidemic and a vaccination campaign is needed to stop it spreading across New Zealand, health experts say.

                More than 1000 people have caught mumps in Auckland this year, with the number of cases almost doubling since the start of October.

                The outbreak was now an epidemic because it could not be contained, the public health officials say in a joint letter to the Ministry of Health.

                The letter was signed by the chief executives of Auckland, Counties Manukau and Waitemata district health boards, and two senior Auckland Regional Public Health service officials, RNZ reports...

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                • #23
                  Source: CDC issues measles watch for Britain, Greece


                  Mumps cases swell in Waikato
                  AARON LEAMAN
                  Last updated 15:44, December 21 2017

                  Waikato has been caught up in a mumps epidemic.

                  Seventy-five confirmed cases of mumps have been recorded in the region this year, including 49 in Hamilton.

                  Nationwide, more than 1200 mumps cases have been reported.

                  Until this year, there had been no mumps cases recorded in Waikato since 2012...

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                  • #24
                    Source: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/...on-Marlborough


                    Mumps outbreak spreads to Nelson Marlborough
                    Last updated 13:18, December 29 2017

                    A suspected case of mumps has health officials warning that the recent outbreak may have spread to the top of the South Island.

                    People who stayed at the Inlet Backpackers in Collingwood on December 27 or Blue Moon Lodge in Havelock on December 25 or 26 may have been exposed to mumps.

                    The person with mumps has now been isolated, and people do not need to cancel bookings or alter their holiday plans, but remain alert to the symptoms...

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                    • #25
                      Source: https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/natio...nues-to-spread


                      Mumps outbreak continues to spread
                      3:23 pm on 3 January 2018

                      The current mumps epidemic in New Zealand has infected a total of 1070 people, with new figures showing 25 were diagnosed over the holiday period.

                      Auckland health leaders in December said the outbreak had reached epidemic levels, and urged a national response to help slow the disease.

                      It was mostly people aged between 11 and 29 who had been affected by the disease, with low immunisations across that age group.

                      Auckland Regional Public Health service today released the updated figures on the outbreak, which began last year...

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