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Nearly Everyone Who Became Sick With Mumps in Champaign County Outbreak Was Vaccinated

by mosesman

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  • Nearly Everyone Who Became Sick With Mumps in Champaign County Outbreak Was Vaccinated
    by Debra Pressey, http://www.news-gazette.com/  
    CHAMPAIGN — The recent mumps outbreak in Champaign County has climbed to 50 cases, and local health officials say they wouldn’t be surprised to see that number continue to inch upward.
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    Most of the mumps cases have been linked to the University of Illinois campus, where the majority of students are set to return in a few weeks for the start of the fall semester.
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    There have been smaller mumps outbreaks at the UI in years past, but this has been the largest in more than a decade, said Dr. Robert Palinkas, director of the UI McKinley Health Center.
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    “We’re hoping it will tail off,” he said. “It always has, but you can’t necessarily be certain about that.”
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    Champaign County now has two-thirds of the state’s 73 mumps cases, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.
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    The other 23 are scattered among nine other counties. There have been 14 mumps cases in eight of the counties, and the Cook County and Chicago departments of public health have together reported nine cases, according to the state’s latest count.
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    A highly contagious viral illness, mumps is characterized by swollen jaws and puffy cheeks. It can come with fever, headache, fatigue, muscle ache and loss of appetite, though not everybody who gets mumps has symptoms.
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    Nearly everyone (with the exception of about two people) who became sick with mumps in Champaign County in this recent outbreak was vaccinated, said Rachella Thompson communicable disease investigator for the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District.
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    Symptoms for most cases have been mild, she said, “and I think that has a lot to do with the vaccine having some protection there.”
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    Why there have been so many cases among people who have been vaccinated is something health officials are still looking into, Thompson said. “It’s surprising to see this many people vaccinated and still being exposed to the mumps,” she said.
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    Palinkas said once mumps is out in a campus community, it can spread fast because students are in such close contact — and they have so many more social and classroom contacts in a single day than people ordinarily do in the broader community.
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    read more.
http://www.vaclib.org/sites/debate/web1.html
GRAPHICAL EVIDENCE SHOWS VACCINES DIDN’T SAVE US! Source: Greg Beattie’s excellent book “Vaccination A Parent’s Dilemma”. Little effect of vaccines on public health!

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