NZ: 2018 Mumps

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Source: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/101175325/mumps-complications-in-the-waikato


Mumps complications in the Waikato
FLORENCE KERR
Last updated 14:23, February 5 2018

There have been seven cases of orchitis in the Waikato.

Orchitis is a complication of mumps and causes a man's scrotum to swell, painfully. In rare cases, it can cause infertility.

In the seven confirmed cases in the Waikato, all had had mumps.

Since February 2017, there have been 82 cases of mumps in the Waikato...

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Source: http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/natio...mplication-threatens-auckland-men-s-fertility

5 Feb 2018
Painful mumps complication threatens Auckland men's fertility
6:12 am on 5 February 2018
Rowan Quinn, Reporter


Doctors are starting to see the nasty complications of mumps as the epidemic takes hold in Auckland.

Teenage boys and men have been developing the painful condition, orchitis, the swelling of the testicles that can have a long-term impact on their fertility.

With the school term returning for 2018, there was no sign of the promised Auckland-wide catch-up vaccination campaign that could protect tens of thousands of them.

Urologist and paediatric surgeon Neil Price said he had rarely seen orchitis in adolescents and younger teens - until the last few months.

It was a painful and stressful condition for the boys - and worrying for their families, he said...

 

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Souce: https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/174375-new-cases-of-mumps-rotorua.html

Posted: 10:20am Sunday 04 Mar, 2018
New cases of mumps in Rotorua

Several mumps cases of mumps have been identified at the Fire and Emergency New Zealand National Training Centre in Rotorua.

?Public Health has followed up close contacts of these cases and immunisation has been recommended for those who need it,? says Dr Natasha Murray, Medical Officer of Health.

The cases are a part of an ongoing mumps outbreak, mostly in the Auckland region, which is also affecting some other parts of New Zealand.

In the last month, there have been 13 mumps cases notified in the Bay of Plenty and Lakes districts...

 

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Source: http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/healt...e-confirmed-in-nelson-marlborough-region.html


Buller Festival goers warned after mumps case confirmed in Nelson Marlborough region
1 hour ago
Newshub staff

People who attended the Buller Festival have been warned they could have been exposed to mumps after a case has been confirmed in the Nelson Marlborough region.

The Nelson Marlborough Health Public Health Service has been notified of a case of the viral disease and is advising people who attended the festival in Murchison on 3-4 March to check their vaccination status, get immunised and be alert to symptoms.

NMHPHS Clinical Director Stephen Bridgman said an unimmunised person who attended the festival developed mumps, and could have exposed other festival-goers...

 

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Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/5959...womens-rugby-player-ruby-tui-contracts-virus/

VIRUS SCARE Commonwealth Games mumps outbreak fears as New Zealand women?s rugby player Ruby Tui contracts virus

Gold Cost event has been put on red alert and the entire rugby sevens team has been put under quarantine, but they had not yet reached the athletes' village
By Alex Terrell
3rd April 2018, 9:29 am
Updated: 3rd April 2018, 12:04 pm

NEW ZEALAND'S rugby team has been rocked by a mumps scare at the Commonwealth Games after star Ruby Tui was struck down with the virus.

The 26-year-old is now in isolation, but organisers have been spared an outbreak at the Games as the Black Ferns had yet to arrive at the athletes' village...

 

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Source: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12057800


Auckland mumps outbreak has peaked and is declining
24 May, 2018 12:20pm
By: Alice Peacock

A mumps outbreak in the Auckland region is continuing to drive up the number of reported cases nationwide - with reports of the illness registered over the first four months of this year more than triple that of the same period last year.

However, health officials suspect an outbreak declared back in 2016 has peaked and say the number of cases recorded is declining monthly.

Figures from New Zealand's Institute of Environmental Science and Research document 313 cases of confirmed, probable and suspected mumps over the first four months of this year.

This is in contrast to a total of 88 cases over the same period last year...

 

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Source: https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/10...rs-diagnosed-with-mumps-as-outbreak-continues

More than 1200 Aucklanders diagnosed with mumps as outbreak continues
HANNAH MARTIN
Last updated 17:34, August 14 2018

Auckland is in the grip of the largest mumps outbreak in at least the past two decades, with new cases still being reported 18 months after a public health warning was issued.

The outbreak was at epidemic level late last year but numbers have been steadily waning this year thanks to increased immunisation efforts.

Between January 1, 2017, and June 30, 2018, there were 1288 cases of mumps identified in the region. In 2016 there were just 13 cases in Auckland.

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

 

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Source: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&objectid=12156685

Three cases of mumps confirmed in Hawke's Bay
8 Nov, 2018 11:50am

Three cases of mumps have been confirmed in Hawke's Bay.

One was a student from Hastings Boys' High School, while the other two cases are adults.

The cases have prompted health officials to urge parents to check their children's immunisation status...