In Florida, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Texas universities report an outbreak of Mumps infections. Also in Ireland, the infectious disease has occurred since the beginning of the year, more than twice as often as in 2018. The center for travel medicine (CRM) advises travelers and exchange students to pay attention in addition to the required trip specific immunizations are also always on a valid standard vaccinations.
Mumps-diseases occur throughout the world. The eponymous Virus is transmitted by droplet infection or by direct contact with Saliva from person to person. "Why it came to this outbreak at the universities, according to the health authorities of the United States is still unclear,” explains Professor Dr. med. Tomas Jelinek, the scientific Director of the CRM. A spokesman for the University of Florida have pointed out that it is among students, it was common to share cups, water bottles or utensils. This is exactly the kind of behavior, which can result in Unvaccinated for the Transmission of the Mumps Virus.
"Against Mumps can be schützen" with the so-called MMR vaccination, which is one of the of the Standing Committee on vaccination (STIKO) recommended standard vaccinations, ;, explains Jelinek. The combination vaccination against measles, Mumps and rubella usually occurs in the eleventh month of life, the second vaccination at a distance of four to twelve months on the first. According to the recent outbreaks, the CRM advises all travellers, as well as the exchange of pupils and students, prior to a planned stay in the U.S. to check whether they were vaccinated as children against Mumps.
In the case of a Mumps infection, the characteristic, usually double-sided inflammatory swelling of the parotid gland occurs after an incubation period of 12 to 25 days. You can take up to a week. Prior to that, non – specific symptoms such as fever, headache and pain in the limbs often occur. With increasing age, the risk for complications such as orchitis in a man or an inflammation of the ovaries in women, which can lead to infertility is on the rise. An inflammation of the brain, Meningitis, develops in up to 10 percent of the cases. Also a temporary hearing loss or deafness may occur. A specific treatment for Mumps, there is not, the treatment is purely symptomatic.
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