Ireland: 2014 Mumps cases

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Source: http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/45-rise-in-cases-of-mumps-reported-this-year-274424.html

45% rise in cases of mumps reported this year
Saturday, July 05, 2014
By Evelyn Ring
Irish Examiner Reporter

There has been a 45% increase in mumps this year, figures show.

Since the start of the year 191 cases were reported to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), compared to 104 over the same period last year.

Of all the cases reported so far this year, 93 (49%) were confirmed. Age groups most affected were the 20 to 24 age group (40 cases) and the 25 to 34 age group (33 cases) with more men (58%) than women affected.

In most cases no specific complications were reported. However, 11 of the 191 cases were hospitalised...

 

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Re: Ireland: 2014 Mumps cases

Source: http://www.herald.ie/news/ucd-alert-at-campus-outbreak-of-mumps-30683883.html


UCD alert at campus outbreak of mumps
By Luke Byrne ? 22 October 2014 06:00 AM

UCD has issued a mumps alert after several students on campus have been diagnosed with the condition - which at its worst can cause sterility or lead to meningitis...

 

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Re: Ireland: 2014 Mumps cases

Source: http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?id=24161

Big rise in mumps cases this year
[Posted: Wed 05/11/2014 by Deborah Condon www.irishhealth.com]

More than 400 cases of mumps have been diagnosed so far this year compared to 184 cases for the whole of 2013, the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) has said.

According to the centre, most of this year's cases have occurred in young people aged 17 to 20...