Ongoing mumps outbreak among adolescents and young adults, Ireland, August 2018 to January 2020

Between 18 August 2018 and 24 January 2020, 3,736 mumps cases were notified in Ireland. The highest numbers of notifications were observed in the age group 15–24 years. Vaccination status was reported for 32% (n = 1,199) of cases: 72% of these had received two doses of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) va...

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Autores principales: Ferenczi, Annamaria, Gee, Sarah, Cotter, Suzanne, Kelleher, Kevin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2020
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7001241/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32019666
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.4.2000047
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Kelleher, Kevin
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description Between 18 August 2018 and 24 January 2020, 3,736 mumps cases were notified in Ireland. The highest numbers of notifications were observed in the age group 15–24 years. Vaccination status was reported for 32% (n = 1,199) of cases: 72% of these had received two doses of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. Vaccination uptake after free MMR vaccination targeting colleges and universities since early 2019 was low. Therefore, a national media campaign began in January 2020.
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spelling pubmed-70012412020-02-13 Ongoing mumps outbreak among adolescents and young adults, Ireland, August 2018 to January 2020 Ferenczi, Annamaria Gee, Sarah Cotter, Suzanne Kelleher, Kevin Euro Surveill Rapid Communication Between 18 August 2018 and 24 January 2020, 3,736 mumps cases were notified in Ireland. The highest numbers of notifications were observed in the age group 15–24 years. Vaccination status was reported for 32% (n = 1,199) of cases: 72% of these had received two doses of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. Vaccination uptake after free MMR vaccination targeting colleges and universities since early 2019 was low. Therefore, a national media campaign began in January 2020. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2020-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7001241/ /pubmed/32019666 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.4.2000047 Text en This article is copyright of the authors or their affiliated institutions, 2020. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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title_full Ongoing mumps outbreak among adolescents and young adults, Ireland, August 2018 to January 2020
title_fullStr Ongoing mumps outbreak among adolescents and young adults, Ireland, August 2018 to January 2020
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