1,000+ get mumps in NY & NJ since August

[sharingwisdom]

More than 1,000 get mumps in New York, New Jersey since August
February 9, 2010, CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/08/mumps.outbreak.northeast/index.html (https://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/08/mumps.outbreak.northeast/index.html)
More than 1,000 people in New Jersey and New York, many of them adolescent Orthodox Jews, have been sickened with mumps since August, health authorities said Monday. Almost all of those infected with the virus are of the Orthodox or Hasidic Jewish population, and their average age is 14. The mumps outbreak began at a summer camp for Orthodox Jewish boys in Sullivan County, New York, according to the CDC. Health officials have linked the outbreak to an 11-year-old boy at the camp. He had recently returned from the United Kingdom, where a mumps outbreak had spread to 4,000 people. Rabbi Yehunda Pirutinsky was surprised when his 14-year-old son was diagnosed with mumps a week ago. "He was completely vaccinated," Pirutinsky said. "So it was a surprise to us he came down with mumps." Of the New Jersey cases, 77 percent were vaccinated, Terjesen said. But the vaccine is not 100 percent effective, according to the CDC. At two doses, the vaccine is 76 to 95 percent effective, the CDC says on its Web site.


Note: 77 percent of the over 1,000 who came down with mumps had been vaccinated against the disease, yet the CDC claims it is 76 to 95 percent effective. Hmmmm... For many reports from reliable sources that highlight serious problems w/vaccines Vaccines News Articles (https://www.wanttoknow.info/vaccinesnewsarticles)

[Zeno Swijtink]

A large outbreak of mumps in a population with a high vaccination rate is not unheard of and the matter is discussed in a 1999 study published in BMJ:

Comparative efficacy of three mumps vaccines during disease outbreak in eastern Switzerland: cohort study. BMJ, 319:352 (7*August*1999) (https://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7206/352)

There appear to be different strains of mumps.

[Sylph]

The reason for the success of the virus in this vaccinated population is, apparently, the close associations in the community...the 'togetherness'.
The 11 year old brought the mumps back from the UK, where Wakefield and his bogus studies linking the MMR to autism caused a drop off in immunization rates there.

CDC officials trace the origin of this outbreak to a summer camp for Orthodox Jewish boys in Sullivan County, New York, last June. That's when an 11-year-old boy arrived at the camp after having spent time in the United Kingdom, which has been dealing with its own mumps outbreak -- it saw about 7,400 cases last year.
Health officials say that boy -- referred to as the "index case" -- infected others attending the summer camp. After leaving the camp, they then transmitted the illness to their communities when they returned home.
Both the CDC and health officials in New York and New Jersey say the outbreak is still primarily confined to specific religious communities in their states. "Much of the current outbreak is occurring in congregate settings, where prolonged, close contact among persons might be facilitating transmission," CDC officials say in the weekly report.
Health officials say they believe there are several reasons why this outbreak is confined to these religious communities. One is that young men in particular are spending many hours in school, "often face-to-face with a study partner," according to the CDC's weekly report. It is likely community transmission also occurs within large families.
Mumps is spread by people sneezing or coughing, sending the virus-laden droplets through the air. People can also get infected by touching surfaces that a sick person has touched. Once infected, someone can transmit the virus for a day or two before showing any symptoms of the illness and for up to five days after symptoms appear, according to the CDC.
Symptoms of illness include fever, headache, muscle aches, loss of appetite and swelling of the salivary glands, causing the jaw and cheeks to swell. More serious complications can include inflammation of the brain, swelling of the testicles or ovaries, and deafness, according to the CDC. Adults are at higher risk for serious complications.