Mumps outbreak on the island of Anglesey, North Wales, December 2008-January 2009

Euro Surveill. 2009 Feb 5;14(5):19109. doi: 10.2807/ese.14.05.19109-en.

Abstract

Twenty-three cases of clinical mumps in young people have been reported in North Wales over a five-week period since late December 2008. All cases have social links, and most of them have received two doses of mumps-containing vaccine.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Child
  • Disease Outbreaks / prevention & control*
  • Disease Outbreaks / statistics & numerical data*
  • Female
  • Geography / statistics & numerical data
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Male
  • Mass Vaccination / statistics & numerical data*
  • Mumps / epidemiology*
  • Mumps / prevention & control*
  • Mumps Vaccine / therapeutic use*
  • Population Surveillance
  • Risk Assessment / methods*
  • Risk Factors
  • Wales / epidemiology
  • Young Adult

Substances

  • Mumps Vaccine