Iowa: 2010 Mumps Outbreaks

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Source: http://www.kcautv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12360581

Mumps Outbreak is Being Linked to a NE Basketball Tournament
Posted: Apr 22, 2010 8:16 PM EST Updated: Apr 22, 2010 8:16 PM EST

He's a baller. And he's played in the same alumni basketball tournament for 13 years. But it was this year that Dan Beller, from Elkhorn, Nebraska came back with more than a few baskets.

Beller says, "About 3 weeks after the alumni tournament, I woke up with some pain in my jaw, I had a sore back, sore neck, there's a lot of soreness from your body."

Beller, along with six others at the same tournament, were diagnosed with the Mumps. Because it's so contagious, his wife and kids have even had to move out for the time being.

Beller says, "Basically, I've been isolated in my home for six days by my self. It's very difficult, you know, I have two small children, a 3 year old daughter, a 1 year old boy and I actually missed his 1st birthday party on Saturday."

Most of us get a vaccine for Mumps when we're little. Even Beller says he got both doses of the MMR vaccine.

But Dr. Thomas Benzoni, from Mercy Medical Center, says, "Nothing's fail?proof in my job."

And experts say more people aren't getting the vaccine these days, and that's putting people at risk.

Dr. Benzoni says, "People can end up permanently having mental problems from mumps, some end up in nursing homes. A number of people end up with deafness, which can be permanent. But if you want to get a guy's attention or a girl's attention, it can also infect the ovaries or testicles and cause them to fade away."

A shocking reminder for everyone to take precaution.

Beller says he is feeling a lot better, and he says his time off has given him plenty of time to soak up some Sportscenter and NFL Draft.
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Re: Iowa: 2010 Mumps Outbreaks

Source: http://www.radioiowa.com/2010/05/05/health-department-confirms-mumps-outbreak-in-northwest-iowa/


Health Department confirms mumps outbreak in northwest Iowa
by Dar Danielson on May 5, 2010
in Health & Medicine

The Iowa Department of Public Health is investigating an outbreak of mumps in northwest Iowa linked to a private college. State medical director, Patti Quinlisk, says the outbreak is in Sioux County. She says there are eight confirmed cases and other people being tested. All the cases are young adults who are associated with Dordt College in Sioux Center.

Quinlisk says they’re trying to locate everyone who may’ve come into contact with those who’ve already been confirmed to have the disease. Quinlisk says they are concerned because all the cases are happening at the same time, which indicates one or more people exposed the others to mumps. She says they don’t want to see the cases become widespread like the outbreak a couple of years ago. They’s now working with everyone to stop the disease from spreading.

Quinlisk says everyone needs to be sure their vaccinations are up to date, especially people in northwest Iowa...

 

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Re: Iowa: 2010 Mumps Outbreaks

Source: http://www.lemarssentinel.com/story/1632627.html

Mumps outbreak touches Le Mars
Thursday, May 6, 2010
By Magdalene Landegent
The bowling alley in Le Mars is listed as one of the exposure sites for a possible mumps outbreak originating in Sioux County.

The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) is asking people who visited the Sweet 16 Lanes bowling alley in Le Mars during the evening of April 27 to make sure they have received two doses of the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine.

No reported cases have popped up in Le Mars at this time...

...Other identified exposure locations in northwest Iowa include:

* April 12 through May 5 -- Dordt College (Sioux Center)

* April 22 - Spirit Lake vs. Hull-Western Christian soccer game (Hull)

* April 23 -- Hull-Western Christian Prom

* April 24 -- Student dance at Dugout/Events Center (Granville)

* April 25 -- Covenant Christian Reformed Church worship service (Sioux Center)

* April 25 -- Emmanuel Christian Reformed Church worship service (Sheldon)

* April 26 -- Hull-Western Christian School

* April 27 -- Sibley Ocheyden School

* April 29 -- Tofer's Bar (Sioux Center) -- evening hours

* April 29 -- Root beer kegger at South View Apartments (Sioux Center)

* May 2 - Emmanuel Christian Reformed Church worship services (Sheldon)

* May 3 -- Hull-Western Christian vs. Spencer soccer game (Spencer)

For more information about mumps, visit www.idph.state.ia.us/adper/mumps.asp or www.cdc.gov/mumps/index.html.

 

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Re: Iowa: 2010 Mumps Outbreaks

Source: http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/article_9f56d55b-6f9b-5006-af45-b5428601cbfb.html

Health officials say no vaccine is 100 percent effective
Vaccinations didn't help mumps victims
By Dolly A. Butz - dbutz@siouxcityjournal.com | Posted: Friday, May 7, 2010 12:00 am

SIOUX CENTER, Iowa -- Eight people suffering from mumps in Sioux County had been vaccinated for the disease, but health officials said Thursday that doesn't mean that the MMR vaccine isn't effective.

The University of Iowa Hygienic Laboratory confirmed Tuesday afternoon that seven students at Dordt College in Sioux Center had mumps.

"As far as we are aware, the individuals involved in this outbreak are fully immunized," said Linda Drey, nursing director for the Siouxland District Health Department...

...State epidemiologist Patricia Quinlisk explained that if a community of 100 people receive a vaccine that is 90 percent effective, 90 of those people will not contract mumps if they are exposed to it. However, the vaccine will not take in 10 people and they will develop mumps if exposed to it.

"That's expected," she said. "There's no vaccine that we have, except for maybe the rabies vaccine, that's 100 percent effective."

Quinlisk said genetic differences may explain why some people respond to the vaccine and others don't...

...Iowa experienced a mumps epidemic in March 2006, when 219 mumps cases were reported. Fourteen people with clinically compatible symptoms were investigated in three neighboring states. The epidemic was the largest of its kind in the United States since 1988, according to the national Centers for Disease Control.

Iowa began mandating two doses of the MMR vaccine in 1991.

Quinlisk said anyone starting kindergarten before 1991 received just one dose of the vaccine, which was only around 80 to 85 percent effective. At the time of the 2006 epidemic, she said a number of college students started kindergarten before 1991 and therefore had only received a single dose of the vaccine.

"We've now gone long enough that most kids in college today, if they're of routine college age, started kindergarten after 1991, and therefore would've had two doses," she said. "So we're in a little bit different situation now than we were five years ago."

 

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Re: Iowa: 2010 Mumps Outbreaks

Source: http://www.omaha.com/article/20100508/LIVING01/705089776

Published Saturday May 8, 2010
Mumps cases growing

By Rick Ruggles
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

More than 30 mumps cases have been reported in Nebraska and Iowa, health authorities said this week.

Twenty-one are Nebraska cases and 11 are Iowa cases, including at least four in northwest Iowa.

The federal Centers for Disease Control said Friday the only other states reporting mumps are New York and New Jersey, and those are primarily attributable to outbreaks in Hasidic Jewish schools there. Jeff Dimond, a CDC spokesman, said there isn?t a known connection between the cases in the Midwest and those in the northeast.

The outbreak is nowhere near that which occurred nationwide in 2006. That year, close to 2,000 cases were reported in Iowa and 363 in Nebraska...

 

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Re: Iowa: 2010 Mumps Outbreaks

Source: http://www.lemarssentinel.com/story/1634778.html

One case of mumps confirmed in Plymouth County
Friday, May 14, 2010
By Magdalene Landegent

Following a small outbreak of mumps in Sioux County, one case of the virus was confirmed in Plymouth County.

No further exposures in the county are likely, according to an Iowa Department of Public Health official.

"This person didn't have high-risk exposure except to their family, which we were able to take care of," the official said.

The confirmed case in Plymouth County came after many people were tested for mumps due to the eight Sioux County cases.

However, the official said that case is not linked to the cases in Sioux County...

 

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Re: Iowa: 2010 Mumps Outbreaks

Source: http://www.ksfy.com/news/local/94305484.html

Iowa Confirms 3 New Mumps Cases

The Iowa Department of Public Health has confirmed that three new cases of the mumps have been reported in Northwestern Iowa.
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One of the new cases was found in Plymouth County and the other two are in Sioux County.

The cases have been linked to the original eight cases that broke out in Sioux Center and raised concerns among students and faculty at Dordt College...

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Also see: http://www.radioiowa.com/2010/05/19/additional-mumps-cases-in-northwest-iowa-raise-concern/


Additional mumps cases in northwest Iowa raise concern
by Dar Danielson on May 19, 2010

...Dr. Quinlisk says the total number of confirmed mumps cases in northwest Iowa is now 11.

?If we know about 11 cases, there?s probably, oh I don?t know, 20, 30 maybe even 40 or more cases that are really occurring, and all of those people could be spreading it,? Quinlisk says...

...She says people usually get sick in about 16 to 17 days, but you can get sick as early as 12 days all the way up to 25 days. Quinlisk says getting the vaccine is the best way to avoid mumps. Quinlisk says there are still some people who get mumps even though they?ve had two doses of the vaccine, but the vaccine takes care of most people...

 

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Re: Iowa: 2010 Mumps Outbreaks

Source: http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/94613154.html

More Mumps Cases Diagnosed in Iowa
By Cindy Hadish

Story Created: May 21, 2010 at 3:27 PM CDT

DES MOINES - The number of mumps cases diagnosed in Iowa has risen to 13.

According to the Iowa Department of Public Health, five cases have been identified in northwestern Iowa, in addition to the eight cases reported in early May....

 

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Source: http://www.kpq.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2261

The Grant County Health District has lab-confirmation that a Grant County resident has mumps.


In a news release, Health District spokeswoman Theresa Fuller says the man was exposed to mumps in Iowa. At this time there are no additional cases in Grant County...

...She says if you were at any of the following locations, you should contact your health care provider to discuss your vaccination status:

(1) An outdoor track meet in Ellensburg Friday, May 14th from 3-30pm to 6-30pm.

(2) From about 6-15p.m. to 7-30 that evening the man ate at Valley Cafe in Ellensburg.

(3) On the morning of Saturday the 15th the man visited the Cambridge Assisted Living in Quincy.

(4) At 6-30p.m. he went to Columbia Cinemas in East Wenatchee to see Robin Hood, and then from nine to ten p.m. he ate at the Olive Garden restaurant in East Wenatchee.

Fuller says it can take as long as 25 days for symptoms of the disease to appear...