SPIKE IN CASES OF MUMPS AND MEASLES. IN ENGLAND
Even as the United States try to grapple with a significant jump in the spread of measles, England is battling with a two-prong attack of both measles and mumps.
A report emanating from BBC News finds 795 cases of mumps for the three months in 2019 compared to 1031 reported cases for the entire 2018. So far for this year there are 231 confirmed cases of the measles virus.
Most of the suffers of these viruses are students who attend universities with the largest reported caeses in Nottingham Trent Universitty.
These outbreaks have led to a call by the Public Health Authorities for more people to become vaccinated . Head of immunisation at Public health England, Mary Ramsay says,"If you're going to university, now is the time to to catch up if you missed out as a child."
Mumps is caused by a virus that infects and causes painful swelling in the parotid glands under the ears.
Credit: BBC Health
Even as the United States try to grapple with a significant jump in the spread of measles, England is battling with a two-prong attack of both measles and mumps.
A report emanating from BBC News finds 795 cases of mumps for the three months in 2019 compared to 1031 reported cases for the entire 2018. So far for this year there are 231 confirmed cases of the measles virus.
Most of the suffers of these viruses are students who attend universities with the largest reported caeses in Nottingham Trent Universitty.
These outbreaks have led to a call by the Public Health Authorities for more people to become vaccinated . Head of immunisation at Public health England, Mary Ramsay says,"If you're going to university, now is the time to to catch up if you missed out as a child."
Mumps is caused by a virus that infects and causes painful swelling in the parotid glands under the ears.
Credit: BBC Health