Alarming increase in cases of mumps in the UK

Malcolm Chisholm, Health Minister of Scotland, said he was concerned about the increasing cases of mumps. He stressed that people must understand that MMR vaccination stopped in case of increase in diseases such as mumps and measles. Only in the first quarter of this year, there were 370 cases of mumps in Scotland. Thats four times more cases than in all of 2003. Most cases involved young people in their twenties or twenty years. An outbreak of mumps appeared at the University of Stirling, Scotland.Everyone there, students and staff have been offered the MMR injection. In England, so far this year, six outbreaks of mumps.
England are in total in the first quarter of this year, the same for the entire 2002 450 cases. The Health Protection Agency, United Kingdom, says thatthis place has nothing to do with the recent decline in the number of children MMR as most patients are young adults or people in their teens. Im too old to had the shot, when he left. Health officials urge young adults and people in their youth receive the injection. Mumps is a disease with serious complications that can lead to male infertility may experience severe brain inflammation.In some cases, measles can be fatal.
The British Medical Association said a mass vaccination campaign is necessary. His spokesman said: If you have a group, then I lose fear that outbreaks happen sometimes. When to drop the use of the MMR vaccine further and other epidemics, he added. What is mumps? Mumps is an acute viral disease caused by the widespread mumps virus. The virus multiplies inthe nose, throat and lymph nodes, salivary glands are most directly affected. More rarely, the pancreas, reproductive organs and the brain are impaired.
Who gets mumps? Any person not previously vaccinated with at least one dose of mumps-containing vaccine after the first year or has not been previously developed mumps is sensitive. mumps outbreaks have occurred in places where a large number of children or young Betamethasone

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