TX: 2019 Mumps

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Source: https://patch.com/texas/houston/7-cases-mumps-confirmed-harris-county-jail


7 Cases Of Mumps Confirmed In The Harris County Jail
Health officials are working to contain the spread of the mumps virus inside the Harris County Jail, and have quarantined 300 inmates.
By Bryan Kirk, Patch Staff
Jun 13, 2019 11:56 am ET

HOUSTON ? The Houston Public Heath Department has confirmed 7 cases of mumps inside the Harris County Jail. According to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, six inmates and one staff member have tested positive for the virus.

"We are going to navigate through this and make sure we are taking every precaution," Gonzalez said...

 

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Source: https://infosurhoy.com/health/mumps...es-14-and-forces-another-300-into-quarantine/



Mumps outbreak at Texas jail strikes 14 and forces another 300 into quarantine
By Denis Bedoya on June 15, 2019 Health

Mumps has broken out at a Texas jail, sickening 11 prisoners and three medical staff members who have been restricted to isolation, officials said Thursday.

Meanwhile, a total of about 300 other inmates that may have come into contact with the infected prisoners have been quarantined, the Harris County Sheriff?s Office said during a press conference, Houston Public Media reported.

Harris County Jail is the second corrections facility in the US this week to report an outbreak of mumps, a highly contagious viral infection...

 

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Source: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/...harris-county-jail-because-of-mumps-outbreak/

600 Inmates Are Now Quarantined At Harris County Jail Because Of Mumps Outbreak

There are seven confirmed cases and eight more people that are potential cases.
Alvaro 'Al' Ortiz | Posted on June 21, 2019, 11:37 AM

The number of quarantined inmates at the Harris County jail has doubled in one week because of a mumps outbreak, a spokesman for the Houston Health Department told News 88.7 on Friday. Currently, there are approximately 600 quarantined inmates, while the number was 300 as of Thursday, June 13.

Porfirio Villarreal said the number of confirmed mumps cases is still seven, six inmates and one jail staffer were diagnosed. Another eight people are being monitored for potential infection. That?s one more than what Dr. David Persse, Houston?s EMS medical director, reported last week.

Jail medical staff first recognized an inmate with mumps symptoms in mid-May...

 

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Source: https://www.click2houston.com/news/...is-county-jail-increases-since-mumps-outbreak

Number of inmates quarantined at Harris County jail increases since mumps outbreak
By CNN, Brittany Taylor - Digital News Editor
Posted: 2:10 PM, June 24, 2019
Updated: 2:10 PM, June 24, 2019

(CNN) - The number of inmates quarantined at the Harris County Jail has increased in the last weeks since the mumps outbreak, which has already forced staff to isolate 14 symptomatic people, health officials said...

 

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Source: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/...ases-confirmed-in-texas-immigrant-facilities/

More Than 400 Mumps Cases Confirmed In Texas Immigrant Facilities
Immigration officials have yet to contain a mumps outbreak that started in October 2018.
Elizabeth Trovall | Posted on July 29, 2019, 4:49 PM

More than 100 new mumps cases have been identified in Texas immigrant holding facilities in the last five weeks, according to data obtained by News 88.7.

The Texas Department of State Health Services has confirmed 436 total cases of mumps since the outbreak started in October 2018.

The count of mumps cases includes all federal facilities that hold immigrants, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and shelters that hold unaccompanied migrant children, according to state officials....