Mumps Shots Didn't Fully Protect in 2006

Most of the college students who got the mumps in a big outbreak in 2006 had received the recommended two vaccine shots, according to a study that raises questions about whether a new vaccine or another booster shot is needed. The outbreak was the biggest in the U.S. since shortly before states began requiring a second shot for youngsters in 1990.

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School Bans Students Without Mumps Shots

The University of Southern Maine began notifying more than 400 students Thursday that they're being banned from campus for failing to meet the latest vaccination requirements for mumps.

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Kan. Boy Suspended for Not Being Immunized

A high school student in Franklin County has been suspended from school for 12 days because he has not been immunized for mumps, the boy's parent said.

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CDC Eyes Air Travel in Mumps Epidemic

Two infected airline passengers may have helped spread Iowa's mumps epidemic to six other Midwestern states, health officials said Wednesday, the latest example of how quickly disease can spread through air travel.

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Health officials are trying to contain an outbreak of mumps in Brooklyn and New Jersey. My question is how come the children who got sick with the mumps took the mumps vaccine. I thought the mumps vaccine was a garuntee against mumps.

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City health officials warned Thursday of an outbreak of the old-fashioned childhood disease mumps in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn.

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New York City's health department today confirmed a mumps outbreak in Brooklyn. The disease spread among children attending a summer camp in upstate New York and has affected at least 57 people ages 1 to 42, with the majority ranging in age from 10 to 15 years.

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A Times analysis finds hundreds of campuses, which tend to be in more affluent areas, at risk for childhood disease outbreaks. Parents seem to fear shots more than mumps or measles.

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A special court ruled Thursday that evidence presented in three cases by parents of children with autism did not prove a link between autism and certain early childhood vaccines. A special court denied Mike and Theresa Cedillo's claim that vaccines caused autism in their daughte …

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Last year, measles killed nearly 400,000 children, mostly in Africa and Asia. Rubella in pregnancy used to leave scores of children blind and/or deaf from birth. I wanted to educate parents about the terrible risks their unvaccinated children and babies faced.

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I just can't make this any clearer. Vaccines do not cause autism. Study after study has shown this, in multiple ways.

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Not enough children are being immunised against measles, mumps and rubella to ensure adequate control of the diseases, finds a large study of children born 2000-2002 in the UK.

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The smallpox vaccine protects for a lifetime, and so does actual an infection of measles or mumps, according to the first long-term study of immunity to childhood diseases.

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MANY KIDS SUFFER THE MISERY OF MUMPS AND MEASLES BUT WHAT IF YOU DON'T CATCH CHILDHOOD ILLNESSES UNTIL YOU'RE AN ADULT? THE EFFECTS CAN HAVE VERY SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES. HERE'S WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR AND HOW TO STAY SAFE.

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The latest vaccine controversy is the concern that vaccines containing thimerosal, particularly the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine cause autism.

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A stubborn outbreak of the mumps in Nova Scotia has now infected 203 people and appears to have spread to Central Canada, health officials say.

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