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Four-Year-Old Dies after Being Diagnosed With Mumps |
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| Telegraph (UK) |
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| August 6, 2009 |
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| "The youngster had appeared to be
recovering but then suddenly took a turn for the worse and doctors at a
hospital in Manchester failed in their battle to save her. The exact cause
of death has not yet been established, but deaths following mumps are very
rare. If confirmed, Lisa would be the first death in a mumps patient for
more than nine years and over 65,000 cases. Parents shunned the MMR vaccine
followed research that linked it to bowel disorders and autism and there was
a resurgence in mumps, with an epidemic in 2005..." |
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| ACIP: No Preference for Separate MMR and Varicella Vaccines |
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| MedPage Today |
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| June 30, 2009 |
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| “The government's vaccine advisory panel has endorsed giving an infant varicella vaccine either by itself or in combination with the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR)...” |
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ACIP Revises Immunity Requirements for HCW MMR Vaccination |
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| Pediatric Supersite |
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| June 24, 2009 |
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| "The Advisory Committee on
Immunization Practices has updated a decade-old policy about immunity
requirements regarding measles-mumps and rubella vaccination for health
care workers. Kathleen Gallagher, DSc, from the Division of Viral
Diseases at CDC, said her working group recommended changing four areas
of the immunity requirements for healthcare personnel, originally
published in 1997 in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The first
change regarded the addition of laboratory confirmation of disease as
adequate proof of immunity against MMR. She said this recommendation was
consistent with routine surveillance practices that accept this data as
proof of immunity..." |
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'Very High' Uptake of MMR School Vaccination |
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| Irish Times (Ireland) |
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April 28, 2009 |
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| "Ireland's Health Service Executive
launched a measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination campaign in
second-level schools on April 24 to combat a nationwide mumps outbreak.
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre reported 2,194 mumps cases at
the end of the week, up by about 2,000 from the same period in 2008, and
the number is expected to rise as areas that have not yet reported to
the center do so. The center says vaccine uptake is 'very high' since
the start of the campaign, and health officials say the vaccine will be
offered again in September for students who do not receive it prior to
summer vacation..." |
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Mumps Suspected in Four NU Students |
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| Boston Globe |
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| April 16, 2009 |
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| "Four Northeastern University
students have suspected cases of the mumps, Boston public health
officials said yesterday, urging any unvaccinated students and staff to
get immunized against this once-common childhood illness. Though
laboratory results are not yet back to confirm the diagnosis, Dr. Anita
Barry, director of infectious diseases at the Boston Public Health
Commission, said the four students - two of whom had just returned from
Ireland where there was a recent mumps outbreak - have symptoms
consistent with mumps. Given the relative ease with which the illness
can be spread, she said, 'it's likely we'll see more cases.''..." |
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Mumps 'Epidemic' Affects Students |
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BBC News |
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April 3, 2009 |
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"An epidemic of mumps has broken out in South Yorkshire with students
at two universities bearing the brunt of the wave of illness. Doctors at
the South Yorkshire Health Protection Unit (HPU) has said 145 cases were
reported in Sheffield in the first three months of 2009. The outbreak
started in the city in January and spread to students at Hallam
University in February." |
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Warning After Huge Rise in Mumps |
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| BBC News |
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| March 11, 2009 |
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| "Cases of mumps in Greater Manchester
are eight times higher than they were a year ago, according to
officials. The Health Protection Agency (HPA) is urging parents to
ensure children are vaccinated after 34 confirmed cases since the start
of 2009. The figure will rise if any more of the current 223 'notified'
cases are confirmed by lab testing. There were just four confirmed cases
in the same period last year, out of 68 notifications, the HPA said..." |
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Anatomy of a Scare: When one study linked childhood vaccines to autism,
it set off a panic |
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| Newsweek |
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February 21, 2009
From the magazine issue dated March 2, 2009 |
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| "Like many people in London on that
bleak February day in 1998, biochemist Nicholas Chadwick was eager to
hear what the scientists would say. The Royal Free Hospital, where he
was a graduate student in the lab of gastroenterologist Andrew
Wakefield, had called a press conference to unveil the results of a new
study. With flashbulbs popping, Wakefield stepped up to the bank of
microphones: he and his colleagues, he said, had discovered a new
syndrome that they believed was triggered by the MMR (measles, mumps,
rubella) vaccine..." |
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MMR Scare Doctor Andrew Wakefield Makes Fortune in US |
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| Times Online |
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| February 14, 2009 |
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| "The doctor who triggered an
international scare over the MMR vaccine, contributing to a resurgence
of measles cases in Britain, has admitted that his claims are 'not
proved.' Andrew Wakefield, who is the subject of a disciplinary inquiry
by the General Medical Council, told The Times that he was unrepentant
about his theory linking the combined MMR vaccine to bowel disorders and
autism..." |
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MMR Vaccine: 'No jab, no school' |
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| The Guardian (UK) |
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| February 10, 2009 |
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| "As British health experts become
increasingly anxious about declining rates of immunisation and the risk
of a serious measles epidemic in the UK, the American authorities are
convinced that their tougher rules are the answer. Parents in the US are
not simply advised by the health authorities to get their children
vaccinated against measles - they are obliged to do it by law. Children
who have not been immunised face a 'no jab, no school' exclusion from
daycare, nursery and school. In extreme cases, their parents have been
threatened with fines and jail..." |
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MMR Doctor Andrew Wakefield Fixed Data on Autism |
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| Times Online (UK) |
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| February 8, 2009 |
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"The doctor who sparked the scare
over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported
results in his research, creating the appearance of a possible link with
autism, a Sunday Times investigation has found..."
See all articles in this series by Brian Deer
Hidden Records Show MMR Truth
How the MMR Scare Led to Return of Measles
MMR: Key Dates in the Crisis |
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More German Children Need Measles Jabs: WHO study |
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| Reuters |
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| February 2, 2009 |
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| "A new World Health Organization
study says more German children need measles vaccines to prevent another
outbreak like the one that occurred in 2006 and affected over 12,000
people in Germany, Romania, Britain, Switzerland, and Italy. Low
vaccination rates are blamed for the outbreak, and researchers from the
Robert Koch Institute in Berlin and two German public health centers say
"catch-up vaccination campaigns" targeting 10- to 14-year-olds should be
rolled out. A separate study published in The Lancet says Germany's
vaccination rate for children born in 1996 to 2003 is 70 percent.
Experts say a 95 percent vaccination rate for all of Europe is necessary
to prevent measles outbreaks..." |
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Vaccine Call after 16 Mumps Cases |
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| BBC News |
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| January 24, 2009 |
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| "The National Public Health Service
for Wales reports that there have been 16 cases of mumps in Anglesey and
Gwynedd in the last month, and 15 of those affected have received the
recommended doses of the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. Area
doctors have been alerted of the problem, and 10 secondary school
students were reportedly sent home with mumps. All cases arose since
Dec. 27, and the Anglesey Local Health Board sent letters about the
situation to parents..." |
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Measles Deaths Drop 74% Worldwide With Vaccine Push |
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| Bloomberg |
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| December 4, 2008 |
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| "Measles deaths tumbled 74 percent
worldwide from 2000 through 2007, the result of a campaign to vaccinate
children in developing countries, world health officials said today.
About 197,000 people died from measles last year compared with 750,000
in 2000, according to a report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization. The biggest
improvements were in Africa and in eastern Mediterranean countries,
among them Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sudan..." |
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Measles and MMR: Sow the wind |
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| The Economist (UK) |
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| December 4, 2008 |
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| "Fledging engineers learn about
disasters like the 1988 Piper Alpha oil-rig fire or the explosion of the
space shuttle Challenger in 1986 as a reminder of the dangers that
attend their profession. Perhaps, if the subject ever achieves
respectability, media-studies undergraduates will pore over the measles,
mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine scare in 21st-century Britain. On
November 28th the Health Protection Agency (HPA), which monitors
infectious diseases, said that there were 1,049 cases of measles in
England and Wales in the ten months to October 2008. Even before the
year is out, that makes 2008 the worst year since 1995, when current
reporting methods began (see chart)..." |
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Mass Measles Vaccination Starts |
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| BBC News (UK) |
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| December 3, 2008 |
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| "A mass vaccination of more than
10,000 children is beginning in Cheshire to head off a measles epidemic.
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said there had been 75 reported cases
of the illness in central and eastern parts of the county in 2008.
Nurses are visiting more than 200 schools to ‘nip it in the bud’, said
HPA spokesman Hugh Lamont. The agency has written to thousands of
parents asking for their consent for unprotected children to be
vaccinated. Health officials have identified 10,534 children - 17% of
Cheshire's school population - from the Child Health Register as not
having the MMR or the pre-school booster jab..." |
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Measles Cases Surge to New High |
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| BBC News (UK) |
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| November 28, 2008 |
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| "Measles cases in England and
Wales have topped 1,000 in a year for the first time in more than a
decade, Health Protection Agency figures show. In the first 10 months of
2008 there were 1,049 cases, more than in the whole of 2007, the agency
said. It said measles was spreading more easily because of the low
uptake of the combined MMR jab over the past decade. In Cheshire, an
outbreak of more than 60 cases has prompted the launch of a programme to
vaccinate 10,000 pupils..." |
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| Mumps Case Reported in Adams County |
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| KHQA |
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| October 9, 2008 |
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| "There's a confirmed case of the mumps in Adams County. According to a news release from the Adams County Health Department, health care workers are taking necessary action to limit the disease as much as possible..." |
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| Mumps Found in 10 Cases in Oxford County |
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| London Free Press |
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| August 8, 2008 |
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| "Immunization clinics will open next week to prevent the outbreak from worsening. Public health officials have scheduled two immunization clinics next week following an outbreak of mumps in Oxford County..." |
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| Mumps Outbreak Prompts Questions |
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| New York Times |
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| April 10, 2008 |
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| "An alarming outbreak of the mumps two years ago has raised questions about whether an additional vaccination is needed. A report in The New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday tracks the 2006 epidemic, the largest outbreak in two decades. Mumps had virtually disappeared in America since the 1990s, when doctors began using a second dose of measles-mumps-rubella vaccine among schoolchildren. But most of those who became infected in 2006 were college students who had received the double-vaccination, raising questions about whether a third dose may be needed..." |
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| Large Outbreak of Mumps Blamed on Failure to Immunize |
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| Ottawa Citizen |
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| March 14, 2008 |
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| "Canada is experiencing a dramatic increase in mumps, largely due to a higher number of "susceptibles," people who are choosing not to get vaccinated or people who are missing their booster shot against the virus, according to the Public Health Agency. "Some people don't want to immunize their kid because of religious or philosophical reasons, they say 'I don't believe in the vaccine, or the vaccine causes more harm than good.' But they are not science-based decisions," said agency spokes-man Dr. Paul Varughese..." |
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| CDC Clarifies Preference on Childhood Vaccines |
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| Bloomberg |
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| March 13, 2008 |
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| "Children who get a combined vaccine against measles, mumps, rubella and chicken pox are slightly more likely to have seizures compared to those getting two separate shots for the same diseases, U.S. officials said on Thursday. The seizures are not usually life-threatening and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was no longer expressing a preference that children get the so-called MMRV combined vaccine rather than two shots -- the MMR vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella (German measles) and a separate one against varicella (chicken pox)..." |
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| Health Officials Hope to Quell Mumps Outbreak |
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| March 10, 2008 |
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| BCLocalNews.com (British Columbia) |
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| "Fraser Health is reporting five lab-confirmed cases of mumps in Chilliwack, in the wake of larger outbreaks in Alberta. A mumps alert went out from Fraser Health offices last week warning Chilliwack residents to make sure their vaccinations are up to date..." |
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