Mumps News

MUMPS is a horrendous illness and can lead to infertility in men. But some parents still insist they will not have their children vaccinated with the MMR jab.

Dr. Phillip DeMio of Seven Hills wrote to The Plain Dealer arguing against vaccinations to prevent H1N1 flu.

Immunisation is one of the most important advances of modern medicine. ItA s the safest and most effective way of protecting people against diseases which can cause serious illnesses and sometimes death.

MONSEY -[0x0f]At least 45 children in Rockland have been diagnosed with mumps, a highly infectious disease that is also being reported in communities in Brooklyn and Orange County, N.Y., according to the state Department of Health.

Free H1N1 vaccinations will be offered to members of Oxford's Amish community at public health's monthly public clinics for them.

Three workers at a Greensboro hospital resigned from their jobs after failing to get the seasonal flu vaccination.

An H1N1 flu vaccine clinic is set for Thurs. Nov. 5 at Evergreen Hall for those most at-risk, 9 p.m. to 3 p.m. submitted Published: November 03, 2009 9:00 AM Updated: November 03, 2009 11:10 AM There's been strong demand for the limited supply of H1N1 flu vaccine available locally so far, but there's also a segment of the community with a history ...

Mary Morris, Immunization Coordinator for the Visiting Nurses Association, holds a vial of the seasonal flu vaccine.

Poultry workers may be at particularly high risk of developing several forms of cancer, according to a new study that points to viruses carried by birds as a possible cause.

Extremists are attempting to derail the introduction of a national swine flu vaccination campaign, the country's top doctor has warned.

After listening to all the negative comments, I felt I must weigh in. I am 78 years old.

THE emergence of the H1N1 swine flu has added urgency to what has become an annual ritual for millions of Americans: getting a flu shot.

The whole idea of vaccinations follows that old saying: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Editor's Choice Main Category: Neurology / Neuroscience Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Article Date: 28 Oct 2009 - 4:00 PDT rate article Encephalitis is inflammation of the brain resulting from a viral infection.

In a smooth-as-glass public health operation Friday between 3 and 7 p.m. in the Senior Center gym, 350 kids and young adults received H1N1 flu vaccine via squirts up nostrils.

Q I am male and I recently came down with mumps while attending university in the States.

Measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria and polio -- shots for all of them are taking a back seat to the H1N1 pandemic flu in the London area.

An outbreak of mumps has affected young adults here and state and county health officials are investigating, county health officials announced Thursday.

Mumps outbreaks in New Jersey and the New York City borough of Brooklyn are related, health officials say.

Jean-Paul Chaine, Heath Kelly, Mariana Sablan, and Michaela Riddell Author affiliations: Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ; and Department of Public Health, Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands To the Editor: The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands , a group of northern ...