Health department works to raise awareness about MMR vaccine after some UA students test positive for mumps stat : WHNT.com

People should also wash hands, cover coughs, clean surfaces, and stay home when ill." MMR vaccine is a childhood vaccine recommended at 12-15 months and 4-6 years of age. During this investigation, ADPH recommends that UA students, faculty and staff not vaccinated with two doses of measles, mumps, rubella vaccine (MMR), immediately receive a second MMR at Student Health Center, their doctor, or health department. For long term protection, the Alabama Department of Public Health recommends the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine for children around 1 year of age. ADPH released information Feb. 24 about mumps showing up in some students at UA:The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) was recently notified by the University of Alabama (UA) Student Health Center that several students had been diagnosed with mumps. While UA has a highly vaccinated population of students, mumps can still occur in vaccinated communities, particularly in close-contact settings such as schools, colleges and camps.




Nunavut's Health department is asking residents to add the measles and mumps vaccine to their travel checklists. Common tournament activities, like sharing a bottle of water, can bring players in close enough contact to contract the infections. Vaccinations are free in local health centres and at Iqaluit's Public Health. Patterson cautions Nunavummiut who might be travelling as part of a sports team to pay special attention to updating their immunizations, noting recent news coverage about hockey players contracting mumps. Mumps can manifest as swelling in the back of the cheek, just in front of the ear.


The Minnesota Wild continues to monitor the health of two star players who tested positive for the mumps. Besides the three cases identified within the Minnesota Wild, the Minnesota Department of Health has just tracked two more cases in Minnesota in 2017. MMR vaccineGOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. – Just days before mumps cases affected the Minnesota Wild team, federal health officials met to discuss whether the United States should consider an additional dose of the mumps vaccine, boosting the immunization from two doses to three doses. Mumps is caused by a virus that spreads from person to person via droplets of saliva or mucus from an infected person. She will be among federal health officials studying mumps closely over the next year.



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