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Mumps cases on rise in Morgan
Journal-Courier
4 hours ago
There are now 12 confirmed cases of mumps in Morgan County, including a Jacksonville High School employee, according to District 117 school officials...
Mumps confirmed in Greene; Morgan cases now at 19
Journal-Courier
6 hours ago
Greene County Health Department officials have confirmed one case of mumps in the county and are looking into another case of a person suspected to be ill with the contagious virus, according to the Greene County Health Department.
Suspected and confirmed cases of mumps have been reported in west-central Illinois since January. Morgan County has confirmed at least 19 cases and is looking into at least 10 suspected cases...
Scott County investigating possible mumps case
Journal-Courier
4 hours ago
A mumps outbreak might now involve a third west-central Illinois county.
At the beginning of April, health officials in Morgan County were dealing with 29 confirmed or suspected cases of the contagious virus and Greene County Health Department authorities said there was one confirmed and one suspected case in that county.
Now Scott County health administrators are reporting a suspected case involving a school student, according to a letter sent to parents of school-age children Friday...
Mumps cases spike reported across Illinois
Updated at 08:41 AM today
...So far this year, there's been 65 cases reported across the state, including the cases from Morgan and Sangamon counties. Mumps has also been reported in Fulton, Greene, Champaign, Cook and Will counties. The cases are mostly in adults...
Illinois health officials investigating 2014 mumps outbreak
by Jenn Stanley
Apr 23, 2014
Public health officials in Illinois do not believe that mumps cases recently reported in Chicago are related to the larger outbreaks downstate. Since the first of the year, there have been three cases reported in Chicago and a few other in surrounding suburbs, though little information has been released regarding these presumed isolated cases in Cook County...
CHAMPAIGN ? Nine University of Illinois students have become sickened with the mumps in an outbreak that began just after spring break and has continued with about two new cases a week.
Dr. Robert Palinkas, director of UI McKinley Health Center, said most students have been sent home to be isolated and recover with their families, and he expects to continue seeing about two new mumps cases on campus through the end of the school year.
There was also a UI staff member who may be a possible 10th cases of mumps, Palinkas said.
The UI students who got mumps had all been vaccinated for the disease, according to Champaign-Urbana Public Health District Epidemiologist Alwais Vaid...
McKinley Health Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana has diagnosed mumps in about a dozen students since their return to studies following spring break. This cluster of infections appears to be part of a widespread emergence of the mumps virus throughout the Midwest...
More Mumps Cases Reported in Sangamon County
Posted: May 05, 2014 11:37 AM EDT
SANGAMON COUNTY - The mumps outbreak continues to grow in Sangamon County. Three more case have been confirmed.
This brings this year's total to 15 cases. According to the Sangamon County Department of Public Health, 14 of the cases are in adults; one new case has been reported in a person under 18.
More than 40 cases of mumps have been reported this year in Illinois...
May 05, 2014 7:24 p.m.
Evanston Township High School warns of possible mumps case
By: Evanston Township High School | Submitted
Evanston Township High School posted the following letter to their web site:
Dear Parents / Legal Guardians,
This letter is to inform you that a person in your child's school may have contracted a case of mumps. You are being told about this situation so that you can be aware of the symptoms of this disease, how it is transmitted and how to prevent infection. Mumps is not common in children that are up-to-date with their vaccinations...
Mundelein student suspected to have mumps, officials say
By Dan Waters Tribune reporter
1:36 p.m. CDT, May 6, 2014
A 12-year-old student at Fremont Middle School in northwest suburban Mundelein has contracted a probable case of the mumps, according to a district official.
The school was notified on May 1 that the boy had been diagnosed with the disease, said Margaret Van Duch, communications coordinator for Fremont School District 79...
