Mumps

The measles vaccine – as part of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine series – is a life saver. Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control reveal that the measles vaccine has saved the lives of more than 20 million people around the world since 2000. If all the people whose lives were saved by the vaccine were gathered in one spot they’d exceed the population of China’s capital of Beijing, the second-largest city in the world. But there is still work to be done, with close to 90,000 people still dying from measles every year worldwide, almost all of them unvaccinated. DR. MARC SIEGEL: PREVENT NEEDLESS DEATHS -- GET VACCINATED FOR ALL THESE REASONS Current Centers for Disease Control recommendations call for two doses of the measles vaccine, “the first after the first birthday (12 to 15 months) and the second at school entry (4 to 6 years).” Actually MMR’s second dose can be given earlier . Currently, all 50 states and the District of Columbia have mandatory requi...

A letter dated Jan. 9 was sent to Homer Community Consolidated School District 33C parents in regard to a “probable case” of mumps at Goodings Grove School. The district was notified of the case by the Will County Health Department the same day of the letter, according to Assistant Superintendent for Instruction Michael Szopinski, who wrote it. The mumps case comes after an outbreak of the disease this past December at Lewis University, along with Lockport Township High School sending a press release out early last month that someone there may have contracted the disease, with that person later testing negative.   On the morning of Jan. 11, Homer 33C Superintendent Craig Schoppe told  The Homer Horizon  it was a student, not a faculty member, who has the probable case, and that the district has not been notified of any other cases taking place since the letter was released. Homer 33C stated in the letter that mumps is not common in children up-to-date on vaccinations a...

A letter dated Jan. 9 was sent to Homer Community Consolidated School District 33C parents in regard to a “probable case” of mumps at Goodings Grove School. The district was notified of the case by the Will County Health Department the same day of the letter, according to Assistant Superintendent for Instruction Michael Szopinski, who wrote it. The mumps case comes after an outbreak of the disease this past December at Lewis University, along with Lockport Township High School sending a press release out early last month that someone there may have contracted the disease, with that person later testing negative.  On the morning of Jan. 11, Homer 33C Superintendent Craig Schoppe told  The Lockport Legend  it was a student, not a faculty member, who has the probable case, and that the district has not been notified of any other cases taking place since the letter was released. Homer 33C stated in the letter that mumps is not common in children up-to-date on vaccinations ...

The measles vaccine – as part of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine series – is a life saver. Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control reveal that the measles vaccine has saved the lives of more than 20 million people around the world since 2000. If all the people whose lives were saved by the vaccine were gathered in one spot they’d exceed the population of China’s capital of Beijing, the second-largest city in the world. But there is still work to be done, with close to 90,000 people still dying from measles every year worldwide, almost all of them unvaccinated. DR. MARC SIEGEL: PREVENT NEEDLESS DEATHS -- GET VACCINATED FOR ALL THESE REASONS Current Centers for Disease Control recommendations call for two doses of the measles vaccine, “the first after the first birthday (12 to 15 months) and the second at school entry (4 to 6 years).” Actually MMR’s second dose can be given earlier . Currently, all 50 states and the District of Columbia have mandatory requi...

A letter dated Jan. 9 was sent to Homer Community Consolidated School District 33C parents in regard to a “probable case” of mumps at Goodings Grove School. The district was notified of the case by the Will County Health Department the same day of the letter, according to Assistant Superintendent for Instruction Michael Szopinski, who wrote it. The mumps case comes after an outbreak of the disease this past December at Lewis University, along with Lockport Township High School sending a press release out early last month that someone there may have contracted the disease, with that person later testing negative.   On the morning of Jan. 11, Homer 33C Superintendent Craig Schoppe told  The Homer Horizon  it was a student, not a faculty member, who has the probable case, and that the district has not been notified of any other cases taking place since the letter was released. Homer 33C stated in the letter that mumps is not common in children up-to-date on vaccinations a...

A letter dated Jan. 9 was sent to Homer Community Consolidated School District 33C parents in regard to a “probable case” of mumps at Goodings Grove School. The district was notified of the case by the Will County Health Department the same day of the letter, according to Assistant Superintendent for Instruction Michael Szopinski, who wrote it. The mumps case comes after an outbreak of the disease this past December at Lewis University, along with Lockport Township High School sending a press release out early last month that someone there may have contracted the disease, with that person later testing negative.   On the morning of Jan. 11, Homer 33C Superintendent Craig Schoppe told  The Homer Horizon  it was a student, not a faculty member, who has the probable case, and that the district has not been notified of any other cases taking place since the letter was released. Homer 33C stated in the letter that mumps is not common in children up-to-date on vaccinations a...

A letter dated Jan. 9 was sent to Homer Community Consolidated School District 33C parents in regard to a “probable case” of mumps at Goodings Grove School. The district was notified of the case by the Will County Health Department the same day of the letter, according to Assistant Superintendent for Instruction Michael Szopinski, who wrote it. The mumps case comes after an outbreak of the disease this past December at Lewis University, along with Lockport Township High School sending a press release out early last month that someone there may have contracted the disease, with that person later testing negative.   On the morning of Jan. 11, Homer 33C Superintendent Craig Schoppe told  The Homer Horizon  it was a student, not a faculty member, who has the probable case, and that the district has not been notified of any other cases taking place since the letter was released. Homer 33C stated in the letter that mumps is not common in children up-to-date on vaccinations a...