National Briefing | Science: Mumps Outbreak Prompts Question

An alarming outbreak of the mumps two years ago has raised questions about whether an additional vaccination is needed. A report in The New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday tracks the 2006 epidemic, the largest outbreak in two decades. Mumps had virtually disappeared in America since the 1990s, when doctors began using a second dose of measles-mumps-rubella vaccine among schoolchildren. But most of those who became infected in 2006 were college students who had received the double-vaccination, raising questions about whether a third dose may be needed. The outbreak appeared to start in January 2006 on college campuses in Iowa, and by April the outbreak peaked with 40 states reporting 2,786 cases. By the end of the year, a total of 6,584 cases and 85 hospitalizations had been reported. The researchers noted that the virus probably came from students or other travelers from Britain, where there was a larger outbreak of the same strain. Above, Mandi McClue, got a mumps immunization in 2006 at the health center at Drake University in Des Moines.

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