Mumps Outbreak at a University and Recommendation for a Third Dose of Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine - Illinois 2015-2016.

Tuesday, 2nd of August 2016 Print

MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2016 Jul 29;65(29):731-4. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6529a2.

Mumps Outbreak at a University and Recommendation for a Third Dose of Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine - Illinois 2015-2016.

Albertson JP Clegg WJ Reid HD Arbise BS Pryde J Vaid A Thompson-Brown R Echols F.

Abstract

Mumps is an acute viral disease characterized by fever and swelling of the parotid or other salivary glands. On May 1 2015 the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) confirmed a mumps outbreak at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. IDPH and the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District (C-UPHD) conducted an investigation and identified 317 cases of mumps during April 2015-May 2016. Because of sustained transmission in a population with high 2-dose coverage with measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine a third MMR dose was recommended by IDPH C-UPHD and the universitys McKinley Health Center. No formal recommendation for or against the use of a third MMR dose has been issued by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) (1). However CDC has provided guidelines for use of a third dose as a control measure during mumps outbreaks in settings in which persons are in close contact with one another where transmission is sustained despite high 2-dose MMR coverage and when traditional control measures fail to slow transmission (2).

 

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