ME: 2016 Mumps- Cases at Bowdoin and Bates Colleges

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Source: http://bowdoinorient.com/article/11554

Mumps virus hits Bowdoin and other NESCAC schools
Steff Chavez
Orient Staff
November 4, 2016

There are two confirmed cases of mumps among Bowdoin students and a third suspected case pending lab confirmation according to Doug Cook, director of news and media relations at the College...

 

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Source: http://www.sunjournal.com/news/lewi...break-reported-bates-bowdoin-colleges/2024312


Mumps outbreak reported at Bates, Bowdoin colleges
Lindsay Tice, Staff Writer
Lewiston-Auburn | Friday, November 4, 2016 at 10:18 am
UPDATED: 1:59 p.m.

LEWISTON ? Mumps outbreaks have been reported at Bates and Bowdoin colleges.

Bates spokesman Kent Fischer said eight of its Lewiston college students have been diagnosed with the disease since the beginning of October. No students have an active infection now.

Two cases have been confirmed at Bowdoin in Brunswick. Those patients are "self-isolating," spokesman Doug Cook said...

...According to the Maine CDC, Maine has identified fifteen cases of mumps since January, most of them among college students...

 

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Source: http://www.theforecaster.net/brunswick-says-mumps-outbreak-confined-to-college/


Brunswick says mumps outbreak confined to college
By Callie Ferguson on November 9, 2016@calliecferguson

BRUNSWICK ? While Bowdoin College is responding to a campus outbreak of mumps virus, the town is remaining cautious, but proceeding with business as usual.

As of Tuesday morning, Bowdoin had recorded four cases of mumps, according to college spokesman Doug Cook, up from two cases reported by the Bowdoin Orient student newpaper on Nov. 4.

Also Tuesday, Town Manager John Eldridge said Superintendent of Schools Paul Perzanoski reported there were no cases of mumps in the public school system...

 

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Source: http://bowdoinorient.com/article/11594

Mumps count rises in week after outbreak
Steff Chavez
Orient Staff
November 11, 2016

Since November 1, there have been five confirmed cases of mumps among the Bowdoin student body. As of press time, there are no further suspected cases.

All five students with confirmed cases of mumps received both parts of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine (the initial shot at age one, and the booster at age five). The MMR vaccine is 88 percent effective, according to Director of Health Services Dr. Jeffrey Maher.

Maher said every student who contracts mumps must be in isolation for five days after symptoms first arise.

At the start of the outbreak on campus, four Bowdoin students were not immunized against mumps. Three of those students then decided to get the MMR vaccine, while one remains unimmunized.

The three recently immunized students are in ?exclusion,? according to Maher...