AB, Canada: 2017 Mumps- outbreak declared over

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Source: http://medicinehatnews.com/sports/local-sports/2017/02/18/tigers-diagnosed-with-mumps/

Tigers diagnosed with mumps
By Ryan McCracken on February 18, 2017.

What started as a simple sickness quickly spiraled into something worse.

The Medicine Hat Tigers have been hit hard with the sick bug, as two players have been diagnosed with mumps, while two more and assistant coach Joe Frazer are awaiting test results...

...AHSconfirmed six cases of mumps in the city, which is defined as an outbreak...
It?s not confirmed how the Tigers came in contact with the virus, though the Brandon Wheat Kings ? who visited Medicine Hat on Jan. 21 ? recently dealt with their own bout of mumps...

 

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Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/mumps-outbreak-medicine-hat-alberta-1.3994565


Medicine Hat mumps outbreak prompts province-wide alert
Virus hit the WHL Tigers team, and it's expected there was widespread exposure
CBC News Posted: Feb 22, 2017 2:04 PM MT Last Updated: Feb 22, 2017 2:38 PM MT


It's likely just the beginning, as health officials in southern Alberta deal with a mumps outbreak in the Medicine Hat area.

"We called the mumps outbreak a week and a half ago in one area of southern Alberta, and at this point we have six lab-confirmed cases with multiple other lab samples awaiting testing," said Vivien Suttorp, lead medical officer of health for southern Alberta.

She said there was wide exposure to the disease through the local Western Hockey League team, the Tigers, and that steps have been taken to contain the spread, which could be province-wide.

"At this point, a lot of that strategy is there's targeted messaging to, for example, hockey teams that might have been exposed," said Suttorp...

 

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Source: http://www.metronews.ca/news/calgary/2017/02/27/three-cases-of-mumps-confirmed-in-calgary-ahs.html


Three cases of mumps confirmed in Calgary: AHS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
By: Elizabeth Cameron For Metro Published on Mon Feb 27 2017

Calgary is not immune to the mumps, although there are two vaccines available to help.

The city has three confirmed cases of the viral infection so far this year, according to data from Alberta Heath Services (AHS).

In 2016, Calgary saw a total of 5 cases of the virus.

This year, a total of 17 cases have been confirmed in Alberta. The only area exempt ? so far ? is the North Zone.

Edmonton has already seen five cases this year, and a hockey team in Medicine Hat is experiencing their own cluster of cases...

 

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Source: http://medicinehatnews.com/news/local-news/2017/03/02/mumps-cases-reach-19-in-alberta/

Mumps cases reach 19 in Alberta
By Gillian Slade on March 2, 2017.

The number of confirmed cases of mumps now stands at 19, with nine in Medicine Hat, four in Calgary and six in Edmonton.

Letters to local schools advising them of the outbreak and alerting them to the early symptoms to watch for have been sent out by AHS, Dr. Vivien Suttorp, south zone medical officer of health, said in a recent interview.

The first couple cases of mumps in this region, identified less than two weeks ago, were within the Medicine Hat Tigers organization...

 

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Source: http://medicinehatnews.com/news/local-news/2017/03/07/alberta-mumps-cases-reaches-21/

Alberta mumps cases reaches 21
By Gillian Slade on March 7, 2017.

The number of confirmed cases of mumps now stands at 21, with nine in Medicine Hat, nine in Edmonton and three in Calgary.

This represents an increase of three in Edmonton in the past few days.

For Medicine Hat the number has remained at nine for the past 11 days...

 

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Source: http://medicinehatnews.com/news/loc...med-mumps-cases-in-medicine-hat-and-edmonton/

More confirmed mumps cases in Medicine Hat and Edmonton
By Gillian Slade on March 8, 2017.

The number of confirmed cases of mumps has increased in the last few days and now stands at 27, with 11 in Medicine Hat, 13 in Edmonton and three in Calgary.

This represents a recent increase of two in Medicine Hat and another four in Edmonton...

 

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Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/mumps-medicine-hat-second-wave-1.4023114


Medicine Hat mumps outbreak spreads from Tigers hockey team to broader community
Health officer concerned outbreak could spread to less-immunized communities in AHS south zone
By Sarah Lawrynuik, CBC News Posted: Mar 13, 2017 2:29 PM MT Last Updated: Mar 13, 2017 2:50 PM MT

Medicine Hat, Alta., is currently seeing the second wave of a mumps outbreak in the city that seems to have originated from the local Western Hockey League team.

The number of confirmed cases has increased to 15, up from nine last week. While the original nine cases could all be linked back to the Medicine Hat Tigers, some of the new cases don't have any obvious connection.

"We've now seen that secondary spread to others, either to household members of confirmed cases, or even cases in the community with no direct link to the Western Hockey League," said Vivien Suttorp, the lead medical officer of health for AHS's south zone...

 

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Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/mumps-outbreak-expanded-to-edmonton-area-1.4044611

Mumps outbreak expanded to Edmonton area
Edmonton has 24 of Alberta's 51 confirmed cases
CBC News Posted: Mar 28, 2017 2:33 PM MT Last Updated: Mar 28, 2017 2:51 PM MT

Alberta Health Services is offering two free doses of mumps vaccine to anyone in the Edmonton area who was born in or after 1970.

The move comes after a mumps outbreak previously declared on the University of Alberta campus was expanded Tuesday to the entire Edmonton zone of the provincial health authority.

Twenty-four of Alberta's 51 confirmed cases are in Edmonton.

Last month, officials said four University of Alberta students had confirmed cases of the virus...

 

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Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...ern-alberta-alberta-health-services-1.4167811

Mumps outbreaks declared over in Edmonton, southern Alberta
75 cases of mumps reported in province this year, Alberta Health Services says
CBC News Posted: Jun 19, 2017 12:55 PM MT Last Updated: Jun 19, 2017 12:55 PM MT

Alberta Health Services says two mumps outbreaks linked to four dozen cases of the infection in the south and Edmonton zones have been declared over.

The outbreaks in the south and Edmonton zones made up more than half the 75 cases of mumps in Alberta this year, up from eight cases in all of 2016.

The outbreaks began in February and March. In total, 48 cases were linked to the two outbreaks, AHS said in a statement on Monday...