November 2, 2004

Mumps on campus

Just in from the UK:

Universities are setting up mass vaccination programmes and writing to students advising them to have the MMR jab as an epidemic of mumps threatens to sweep campuses across the country.

Almost 3,000 students and young people could be infected with mumps by the end of the year if trends continue. This compares with only 10 in 1996.

Full story in the Telegraph.

Posted by David on November 2, 2004 12:53 PM

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We had a measles outbreak in Texas in the winter of 1983-84; some Baylor Unviersity do-gooders brought it back from Latin America (where they had been building concrete block conventicles to recruit nominal Catholics into being Baptists, so far as I could tell) and they came back with measles. Which makes you sterile. Which, in Texas, was a BIG deal. The provost set up innoculation tables in the Rice Quadrangle and if you couldn't produce documentary evidence of having had a booster innoculation in the last five years (which, since we were college students, we of course didn't have on us) you got the shot. It worked. There were no measles cases at Rice.

Posted by: Michael Tinkler on November 2, 2004 8:54 PM
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