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2014 was a bad year for mumps, a nearly forgotten virus
Liz Szabo, USA TODAY 5:19 p.m. EST December 15, 2014
A nearly forgotten virus has made a comeback.
Mumps sickened nearly 1,100 Americans this year, causing outbreaks among college students and professional hockey players.
Nearly twice as many Americans have developed mumps this year as in all of 2013, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Fourteen players in the National Hockey League have been infected with mumps since October. A spring outbreak at Ohio State University and the surrounding community, now over, sickened 484 people. A late winter outbreak at Fordham University in New York affected more than a dozen.
Though mumps was once a disease of childhood, today's cases are often in teens and young adults...
2014 was a bad year for mumps, a nearly forgotten virus
Liz Szabo, USA TODAY 5:19 p.m. EST December 15, 2014
A nearly forgotten virus has made a comeback.
Mumps sickened nearly 1,100 Americans this year, causing outbreaks among college students and professional hockey players.
Nearly twice as many Americans have developed mumps this year as in all of 2013, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Fourteen players in the National Hockey League have been infected with mumps since October. A spring outbreak at Ohio State University and the surrounding community, now over, sickened 484 people. A late winter outbreak at Fordham University in New York affected more than a dozen.
Though mumps was once a disease of childhood, today's cases are often in teens and young adults...